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Egyptian Innovations Ships • Used for transportation • Used for trading along the Nile and in the Mediterranean Sea • An exciting discovery of Pharaoh Khufu’s ship • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Ubf1Y 06Yg Papyrus • Invented to make it easier to transport information – before papyrus they had to carry around heavy clay tablets! • Allowed laws to be distributed to everyone • Only scribes some of the royal family and upper classes knew how to read or write -upper classes did not want the ordinary Egyptian people to have this ability • http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/ assetGuid/3F3AA2F3-2EDF-4D7E-8950562059C920CB Pyramids • Made to house the tombs of Pharaohs (tombs included their mummified body and items for afterlife) • Egyptians used knowledge of angles and measurements to build them • http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/vie w/assetGuid/2314FE9C-3566-4D10-A9DC1FFB326A39D5 Sarcophagus • Similar to a coffin today • Used to house the mummified body of a pharaoh after death • Made to look like the real person so they would be accepted into the afterlife
