today we are going to talk about egypt…. where is egypt? top right corner of africa
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Today we are going to talk about Egypt…
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Where is Egypt?
• Top right corner of Africa
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What might we see in Egypt?
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Egyptian Architecture
There were two main purposes for Egyptian architecture:
1.To create a place to worship the kind and have ceremonies to worship him while he was alive.
2.To create a tomb to bury the king or pharaoh after he died.
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Open Pit
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• Mastaba- a four-sided sloped construction with a flat top and an access hole which let on a vertical axis into the ground.
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Step Pyramid
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The Great Pyramids at Giza• The Great Pyramids were created as
burial monuments.
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What are Hieroglyphics?
• Hieroglyphics – translated by greek meant “sacred carvings” The greeks believed that the egyptians priests produced these writings for sacred purposes.
• Hieroglyphics is picture writing and is one of the oldest systems of writing.
• Each picture represents an object. There are over 700 different signs
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Where might we find Hieroglyphics?
• Temples• Tombs• Cartouches• Pyramids
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Example of Hieroglyphics
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Cartouche
• In Ancient Egypt, names were often depicted inside a cartouche.
• A cartouche is an oval depicted to look like rope that is folded and tied at the end.
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Great Sphinx at Giza, Egypt• The Sphinx’s head was modeled after a
Pharaoh and has a lion’s body.
• The lion is an important “symbol” to the Egyptians, it signifies immortality.
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Where have we seen part of a lion used before?