All About Egypt…

The Egyptians were very rich and famous. This is how the Egyptians got rich. For example:  __they were scribes and for being scribes they go  _________________________________________________.

In Egypt very few people learned how to read and write. The people who learned how to read and write were called “scribes.” The writing system is called “hieroglyphs.” Here are some examples of hieroglyph symbols: h = ___ , ankh = ____, sun = ___ , man = ____, god = ___, plural = ____.

War is a very dangerous thing to do. Egypt was surrounded by sea and deserts to protect it from invaders. For example, Nubia, Syria, and Palestine invaded Egypt at different times in its history.

The Nile River is a very nice place to visit. On the bank of the Nile River a plant called “papyrus” grows. The word paper comes from the word “papyrus.”

The Egyptians made mummies. Before they had tombs and pyramids, they buried their mummies in the sand. [Why did the Egyptians make mummies?]

Did you know that the Egyptians mummified cats and dogs? The Egyptians mummified cats and dogs the same way Egyptians mummified people.

Making a mummy is a long and difficult process. The first step was to wash the body, put salt on the skin, and take out all the organs, including the brain and the heart. The priests put special ______________ and then the body was left to dry for 40 days. Finally, the body was wrapped in linen strips, put in its coffin, and put in its tomb.

The Egyptians built many pyramids. The Egyptians made pyramids so that tomb robbers could not steal anything. There are many different kinds of pyramids. For example: in the city of Giza, the pyramid of Khufu, pyramid of Knaefra, and the pyramid of Menkaura. Nobody knows who the Egyptians built the pyramids. These options could be one of the ways the Egyptians built the pyramids. That one god moved rocks to form a pyramid [how the Egyptians built pyramids.]