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The Culture Of Ancient Egypt
By Group 5:
Cody Walsh, Christopher Evans, Samantha
Thorp, and Samantha Rockey
Thinking About Ancient Egypt
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Before our group began working on our project we asked
ourselves questions about Ancient Egyptian culture. We got a lot
of our information from answering these questions.
Did they go to school? If they did what was it like?
Did they worship? If they did what did they worship?
What did they do for entertainment?
What was their language? What was it called?
What did they do for a living? What were their different jobs?
What did the pharaoh have to do with their culture?
What did their homes look like?
What did their diet consist of?
Education
• Most Egyptian education centered on reading and writing.
• Even though school centered on reading and writing, most Egyptians
could not do both of these.
• Only the smartest children were chosen to go to school, so they could
get jobs as scribes and obtain good jobs in the government.
• The best scribes of the school would move on to the House of Life.
• The House of Life was a place where scribes would be trained to
become priests.
Entertainment
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The Egyptians had many different ways to entertain themselves. There
activities ranged from board games to hunting.
One of their favorite board games was called Senet.
Senet today is now thought to be the ancestor of backgammon. To the
Egyptians Senet was even thought to be religious. Also, Senet was a
favorite pastime of King Tut.
The Egyptians also enjoyed many other forms of entertainment, such as;
sailing, fishing, hunting ducks, and hunting gazelles in the dessert.
The Egyptians used many things for hunting tools. These consisted of bows
and arrows, boomerang sticks, and harpoons.
Religion
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To the Ancient Egyptians religion was very important. The way they lived
revolved around pleasing the gods.
Also, the Ancient Egyptians believed in a life after death; the afterlife.
The Egyptians believed that when they died, to live in the afterlife, their heart
would be measured. If it showed that they lived a good life and had a good
heart, they were granted life in the afterlife. Though, if it showed they lived a
life of bad deeds, they would be devoured by a beast.
The Egyptians believed that there were gods. The gods were a very important
part of the their religion.
The Egyptians would go to temples to worship and praise the gods.
Some of the very important gods were; Amun-Re the sun god, Horus the sky
god, and Anubis the god of the dead.
The Egyptians believed that if they put the belongings of that person with
their sarcophagus they would have it in the afterlife.
Hieroglyphics
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The Egyptians like other ancient civilizations had their own languages. Their
writings were called hieroglyphics.
We don’t know quite how they spoke their language, but we can now
understand it.
The way we know most of the Egyptian history is because of all the
hieroglyphics that told about past events, even past lives.
Hieroglyphics were used in many parts of the Egyptian civilization.
Hieroglyphics were found all over the walls of the pyramids, monuments,
temples, etc..
Ancient Egyptian Occupations
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The Ancient Egyptians had many jobs. A few of their jobs were scribes,
priests, farmers, craft workers, mummifiers, and merchants.
Some of the very important jobs were scribes, priests, and mummifiers.
To become a scribe a person would have to be a successful student at school.
Now to become a priest it was much more complicated. First, you would
have to be at the top of your class to make it into the house of life. After you
have endured both school and the house of life you would become a priest.
You would also be near the top of the social pyramid!
If neither of these jobs were enough of a challenge to you, you might want to
be a mummifier. In this job you would have to go through the gruesome
process of removing a body’s organs, (Except the heart, it was believed you
would need your heart in the afterlife.) put on oils and salt to help preserve the
body, and then you would have to wrap the body.
Jobs like a merchant or a farmer worked together to raise money.
A job like a craft worker would be like an architect, because they designed
and supervised the building of buildings.
Ancient Egyptian Homes
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The Ancient Egyptians had a homes different from the ones we have today.
The Ancient Egyptians depended on their wealth; the higher the wealth the
better the home.
An average Egyptian home was a high walled rectangular closure with a door
facing north, to get the advantage of prevailing breezes. Inside, a pool
irrigated trees and shrubs. For entertainment they had a roofed porch. In the
back of the house there were rooms where the owner and his family lived.
On the walls of the house (Like many other Egyptian buildings)
hieroglyphics were written.
The Pharaohs
• The pharaohs were a very important part of the Egyptian civilization.
They made it rich and strong, and they were even thought to be gods.
• The pharaohs were thought to be the reincarnation of the sky god
Horus.
• Most pharaohs were men; only a few were women.
• The pharaohs always wanted to show their wealth and power, so they
would display their possessions to the public. They would do this in
processions and receptions.
Ancient Egyptian Diet
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The diet of most Ancient Egyptians consisted of fruits and vegetables.
The kinds of fruits and vegetables they ate were figs, grapes, onions and
beans.
Sometimes they would have fish and bread. Only the upper class would eat
meat regularly though.
They would use spices a lot to add more flavor to food. Some of the spices
they used were cumin, thyme, dill and sage.
The most popular beverage was beer. Which is thought to may have been
invented by them.
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Since Egyptian hieroglyphics do not represent vowels it is
difficult to find out how King Tutankhamen’s name was
pronounced. The best estimate is it was pronounced “Toot-ankamoon”
Nearly 145 beautiful amulets were in his coffin with him. This
included his royal diadem and his golden dagger.
There were 31 dynasties in Ancient Egypt.
There were so many pharaohs, nobody is quite sure how much
there were.
King Tut died at 19 in mid-January.
He was later discovered by Howard Carter, and Lord
Carnarvon.
The Sphinx was thought of as a monster from the Greeks’
point of view.
The word Hieroglyphics means “Sacred carvings”
In the Egyptian writing there were two kinds of writing. One
of these was called religious writing. This was written from
the Book of the Dead on the walls of tombs. This writing was
supposedly supposed to lead the dead into the afterlife.
The pyramids were one of the Seven Wonders of the World.