It began 5000 years ago and lasted 3000 years on the banks of the river Nile. Each Autumn heavy downpour flooded the river Nile and when it went.

It began 5000 years ago and lasted 3000 years on the banks of the river Nile.

Each Autumn heavy downpour flooded the river Nile and when it went down it left behind rich thick mud.

Farmers planted their crops in this and that is how Egypt grew.

Most Egyptians live in dried mud brick huts which had 3 to 4 rooms.

Wealthy people lived in houses with 70 or more rooms.

They had small windows to keep out the sun’s heat.

They also used wet mats to keep the air cool.

They ate beer made from mashed stale bread,

Bread made with wheat,

Beef, geese fish,

Onions and leeks.

Archaoelogists have found wine jars so they might have drank wine.

Dried pieces of fruit have been found in tombs.

Model bee hives in tombs suggest that they used it to sweeten.

They ate their food with fingers.

Pharaohs were the most powerful and important people in Egypt.

They ruled all the land in Egypt.

Pharaohs, when they died, were put into tombs where they had their personal goods for the next life.

One Pharaoh ruled since he was 6 years old until he 100.

This was unusual beacause the average age was 30.

They wore a crown which was a mix of the two old

crowns.

They were often portayed with a crook and flail.

Priests prayed for them every day.

The Egyptians fought to protect their valuable goods and to take other countries goods.

The army was made up of only men and they mainly wore a skirt and sandals.

Officers led the army and wore leather armour with pieces of metal in them to strengthen it.

Rich officers wore a helmet.

Slave women were captured in the wars.

Hieroglyphics were a type of picture-writing.

Egyptian priests wrote hieroglyphics on the walls of temples.

There was more than 700 hieroglyphics.

Rich children were thought these and they were punished if they didn’t learn them fast enough.

Hieroglyphics took long to learn.

Hieroglyphics was writen on papyrus, a type of paper.

Khufu ordered the pyramid to be built.

It took 20 years and it was done using 2 million limestone blocks.

Each block weighed nearly 400 men..

More than 100,000 people worked at it.

It was hard because they had no cranes, pulleys or tractors.

The sphinx is a statue which has the head of a pharaoh and the body of a lion.

Both of these monuments are in Giza.

First embalmers are called to wash the body with oil and a priest reads from the ‘Book Of The Dead’.

Next the brain is pulled out bit by bit through the nose using a long bronze hook. The brain is dried in natron ,wrapped in gum, bandaged up and put in a jar.

After this they do the same to the other organs.

When that’s finished they dry it in natron and the body is filled with dust, cloth and sand.

After 40 days the hole is covered with a lucky eye of horus charm. Then oils are rubbed into the skin.

They then afterward wrap the body in cloth with charms in between each layer.

Finally they make the death mask, put the body into the wooden coffin, put the death mask on and seal the coffin with wax.

On the 4th of November 1922 Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamen’s tomb after searching in The Valleys Of The Kings.

Tutankhamen was eight when he became pharaoh and he died at the age of eighteen.

Grave robbers have broken in but only the outer chamber, where the body was not kept, so his body and his personal items were still intact.

There were four chmabers with valuable items in them.

There were 2000 things in the four rooms, a lot of them are made of gold.