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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt started around 3150 BC. It is a time known marked by pharaohs, pyramids, gods and goddesses, science, math,and art. This era ended when Egypt was conquered by the Roman empire in 31 BC.

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How did the ancient Egyptians mummify bodies?

the answer is that egyptians learnt about medicine by the mummification process, when they mummified, they looked through the body, so they were able to figure out what medicine would fix what sickness

Why are pyramids placed where they are?

The ancient Egyptians placed the Pyramids where they were (on the west side of the Nile River) because they believed that the sun setting in the west was a symbol of life's end. They also built life giving temples (birthplaces) in the east as a symbol of life's beginning.

What did the ancient Egyptians trade with other civilizations?

The ancient Egytians would trade with Babylonies and people living in Mediterranean Sea,Sea Sea.

What does the Rosetta stone reveal about Egypt?

The Rosetta Stone is a stone found in Rosetta, Egypt that has writing inscribed in three different scripts: Greek, Demotic, and Egyptian hieroglyphics. Because each script says the same thing, scholars were able to translate hieroglyphics for the first time and begin to understand other hieroglyphic writing.

How did Egyptians make sculptors?

Egyptian statues were "built" in several ways - some small statues were carved from a single block of stone or wood, but more commonly statues were composites in which different parts of the statue were made from separate blocks and sometimes of different materials. The famous bust of Nefertiti is thought to have been a study for the bust portion of a composite statue. The really huge megalithic statues were either carved from the living rock or were carved from assemblages of large stones.

Where did the egyptians first live?

I'm not completely sure but i think it was somewhere in Northern or Southern Africa

What made the pharaohs of ancient Egypt so strong and powerful?

well first of all this is 2012 and i don't think we have had a war with them in like forever. But what i do know is that when they had a war back then the ancient army won every time.

What was the first attempt for a classic pyramid shape?

The first classic "smooth sided" pyramid shape was attempted by the Pharaoh Sneferu, who founded the 4th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. Sneferu reigned from either 24-48 years, around 2600BCE, and during this time he was responsible for three separate pyramids. His first pyramid, the Medium Pyramid seems to be the first attempt at the classic pyramid. The Medium Pyramid is famous because it appears to have collapsed and was never finished. Sneferu's second attempt was the Bent Pyramid, which gets it name from the sharp angle its sides take about halfway up the sides. The third pyramid that Sneferu attempted is the Red Pyramid and is the first classical pyramid and was the tallest manmade structure in the world until Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza was constructed.

When was tutankhuman the king?

He was king, but not for very long. He was murdered.

Is hieroglyphics associated with Egyptian history?

The egyptians used hieroglyphics instead of A,B,C and 1,2,3. Instead they had their own little way which people still use today.

Were normal egyptians mummified?

Yes. But it depended on your money that time, the poor got a less 'quality' mummification while nobles got it more higher qualified and it goes on till the pharaos and there family who got the best qualified mummification; depends on how much would you pay the priest when you want to get mummified.

Why was there a war between the Egyptians and the Hittites?

There was a war because when King Tut died his wife wanted a husband, But she did not want to wed her subjects. She sent a message to the king of the Hittites telling them to send her a son that she will marry. The people that were against this killed the person she was going to marry and that started a war.

What were pyramid stones made of?

The great pyramid was built with limestone blocks and the others used some granite blocks.

How did Egyptians use papyrus reed?

it is used in making a paper and a material that was used by the Egyptian in writing a Egyptian that was all about religion

Why couldn't the lower class people of Egypt be mummified?

Because, it was a very expensive task, and most did not have the money. Also, it was usually reserved for higher class nobels.

What olympian ruled over a gloomy kingdom?

Hades ruled the underworld. He was the god of the underworld.

Why did egyptians bury treasures in their tombs?

They were important to King Tut for the same reason they were important to other pharaohs or kings of the time. It was believed they would need those things in the after life.

King Tuts treasures are so important to modern day people because his tomb was the first to be found complete, and not looted of it's treasure. King Tut's tomb is the first true glimpse we have of this ancient civilizations burial rituals, with all their possessions.

Why did ancient civilization start on the banks of the Nile River?

Because they needed to be close to the Nile as a source of water and life, the alternative being the desert.

How big was King Tutankhamuns pyramid?

King Tut didn't have a pyramid. He was buried in an underground tomb, dug into the side of a mountain, in the Valley of the Kings. The main reasons why his tomb survived relatively untouched until 1922 was because he wasn't that important of a Pharaoh, and because the entrance to his tomb was buried by the earth removed during the construction of another Pharaohs tomb built later and higher up on the side of the same mountain.