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Arts and Crafts

Egypt was a rich country, and many persons were engaged in creating luxuries for the wealthy. Goldsmiths and lapidaries produced beautiful jewelry. Sculptors carved stone and ivory into exquisite figurines and vessels. Apothecaries made ointments, lotions, and perfumes, and craftsmen shaped delicate alabaster vials to contain them.... (310 天前)

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Dynasties I and II

About 3100 B.C. a king of Upper Egypt conquered Lower Egypt and united the Two Lands. According to tradition, the king was Menes, but a carved inscription names Narmer as the conqueror.Rulers had several names, however, and Menes and Narmer may have been the same person.The conqueror is reckoned as the founder of Dynasty I. Memphis was founded as the cap... (310 天前)

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Formation of the Kingdom

Ancient man lived first by hunting and gathering wild foods. In the Nile Valley he learned very early to grow grain crops and to raise livestock. The Nile River overflowed its banks for about half of each year, leaving a deposit of fertile silt. There was little or no rain. To first drain the fields and to then irrigate them required men working together... (310 天前)

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Introduction to Ancient Egypt part 2

Scholarly interest in ancient Egypt dates from Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of 1798. The French conquerors were astonished and awed by the pyramids, the Sphinx, and other relics of the distant past. Study of the ancient ruins and artifacts began at once, inaugurating the field of research known as Egyptology. The Rosetta Stone, carrying the same inscrip... (310 天前)

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Introduction to Ancient Egypt part1

More than 3,000 years before the Christian Era, a highly developed civilization existed in Egypt.The country at that time consisted of little more than the valley and delta of the Nile River.It was one of the great powers of the ancient Middle East, retaining its dominant position for more than 2,000 years---many times longer than did other strong kingdo... (310 天前)

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Egyptian Pyramids

The Egyptians continued to construct taller and taller pyramids and started smoothing out the jagged edges of stepped pyramids. One of the earliest attempts was the Meidum pyramid, in 2570 B.C. It had seven steps progressing to eight, but it collapsed and was abandoned.Pyramid designers learned that if pyramids were going to be higher and have steeper sl... (310 天前)

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How Pyramids Work-3

The pyramids were built of limestone, granite, basalt, gypsum (mortar), and baked mud bricks. Limestone blocks were quarried at Giza and possibly other sites. Granite likely came from upriver at Aswan.Alabaster came from Luxor and basalt from the Fayoum depressionIron tools were not available, so workers used copper and stone-cutting tools to carve out t... (310 天前)

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