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Go To Contents Ancient Egypt By Alysha Bridge and Poppy Skillen Contents Who were they? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 1 Pyramids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Page 2 Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 3 Mummies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 4 Sphinx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 5 Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 6 Servants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 7 The Nile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 8 Who were they? Page 1 The Egyptians were people who lived thousands years ago. It was even before Jesus was born, way before. Egyptian times started in 7500 BCE when the first settlers arrived in Nile valley. Egyptians also had jobs like farming, being servants and working at home doing jobs. Back to contents. Who were they? Page 2 Also the Egyptians liked to fish in the boats they built and ride them in the river Nile. But even though the Egyptians had good lives they didn’t have electricity. People think that civilisations from the past aren’t very clever, but Ancient Egyptians proved different. Because of there inventions e.g. the shduf. Back to contents. Pyramids The Egyptians built pyramids for their gods, goddesses, kings and queens. The important people also were buried in the pyramids. The ancient Egyptians built pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs and their queens. The pharaohs were buried in pyramids of many different shapes and sizes. Back to contents. Gods There was lots of gods in the Egyptian times, for example Isis. Isis was a protective goddess. She used powerful magic spells to help people in need. Here are some more gods. Click on them to find out more. Back to contents. Mummies When people in ancient Egypt died they were wrapped in bandages to stop their bodies from rotting. This was called mummification. The mummies bodies were then buried, the special people like kings and queens were buried in special pyramids. Click on this page to find out about mummification. Back to contents. The sphinx The sphinx is a sort of creature with a head of a human and the body of a lion. It was an important god of the Egyptians. The sphinx is still there in Egypt, it is very fascinating to look at. The Great Sphinx of Giza is the most famous Egyptian sphinx. It was built near the Giza Pyramids around 2500 BC by the pharaoh Khafre. People believe that the face on the Great Sphinx is Khafre. Back to contents. Entertainment Children liked to play leapfrog and tug of war. They also played with Egyptian toys such as dolls. It was fun to go down to the river and have a picnic, fish, or try to catch water birds. The hole family played games when the mother of the house wasn't busy, which she normally was. They played games such as knuckle-bones and checkers.And the men went hunting.Also they invented a lot games we still play today like hockey.They used palm trees instead of sticks and leather balls for pucks. In the picture below two people are playing a game called tug of hoop.What you did was two people competed to snatch the hoop. Back to contents. Servants The Egyptians Kings and Queens had servants to serve them food, water and fan them. Even though they could do things there selves they got servants to do things for them. The Egyptian kings and queens believed the were special and shouldn't have to do things there selves. When they died they got people to kill two servants so that when they came back in after life the servants would carry on working for them. Back to contents. The Nile THE NILE The river Nile is 6,670 kilometres long and the longest river in the world. Also most Egyptians built boats to do lots of things like: Fishing, Trading and rich people went on trips. Egyptians believed that the god of the sun Ra floated over the Nile at least once a day. Also that the god Hapy was the reason of the flood. The flood happen once every year it helped the farmers to grow crops. Because it made a rich thick soil. To find out more click on the picture below. Back to contents.