PPT-The Ancient Egyptian Obelisks

By Sax Morgan Location The Obelisks were built in Ancient Egypt The structures do not have a specific year when they were built Most of the Obelisks are still in tact and have been moved around the world for public display. Art History Lesson. Grade: 5. Activity: . Name and symbol cartouche. Keywords: . Cartouche and Symbolism. Art History Lesson. :. Ancient Egyptian Art. Religion was a major influence on ancient Egyptian art. During the early part of the old kingdom the . Egyptians were polytheistic. . Common gods:. . Ptah. – creator of the world. Anubis . – god of the dead. . Re. – sun god. . Osiris . – god of the underworld. . Isis . – goddess of magic. Whitney Hale. How do we know what the Egyptian language of numbers is?. It has been found on the writings on the stones of monument walls of ancient time. Numbers have also been found on pottery, limestone plaques, and on the fragile fibers of the papyrus. The language is composed of . The People of Ancient Egypt were polytheistic. This Means?. osiris. Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. .. He was classically depicted as a . green-skinned . World History. Libertyville High School. Non-Egyptian East Africa: . Nubia. Area between First through Fifth cataracts of Nile. Conquered by Egypt around 2000 BC. Served as major trading center between Egypt, African societies. Gods and Goddesses. By Sana Shigri. Isis . Isis was the Egyptian goddess of the moon, love, magic & fertility, she had wings, wore a sun disk and one pair of cow horns. She also wore a crown similar to a throne, she was associated with thrones because her lap was the first `throne` Horus sat on. She was the daughter of Nut and Geb and had three siblings called Osiris, Seth and Nephthys, she married Osiris and had a son who . Chapter 3.3 . Egyptian gods and goddesses. Early in Egyptian history towns and villages had their own patron gods and goddesses, who they believed protected them. . Early Egyptian gods were often depicted as people, with human bodies, but with the heads of animals. . By Brenna Fulop. UCSF. 12-4-14. Most Dwellings. . Most of the ancient Egyptian dwellings were mud and straw bricks. They had two to three layers of bricks. They used to make huts of Papyrus reeds, plants that grew in marshes along the Nile, but they switched to mud bricks. Wood is very scarce in Egypt, so it isn’t used for building homes. They get the mud from the Nile’s annual flooding. The bricks would eventually crumble, so the more wealthy used stone instead. The houses all, excepting a few, had flat roofs.. Ancient Egyptian civilization. Developed gradually from 5,000 BCE to 3,000 BCE along the Nile. There were two independent . Egypts. : Upper and Lower Egypt. Egyptian history is said to begin when Upper and Lower Egypt were united by . Most ancient Egyptians settled along the Nile River. The Nile River provided fresh water for drinking, food (fish) and trade (navigable river). Papyrus reeds were very useful for many reasons. . The deserts of Egypt and Kush were helpful because they provided natural barriers to keep out invaders. Think…would you want to travel many miles in hot, dry desert conditions?. lasted from about 3100 B.C. to about 525 B.C. or just over 2500 years. . During . that time, there were at least 20 different dynasties with many different rulers. . Historians . divide the long history into . AND. BY TAMARA. Ancient Egyptian Food. Vegetables . that were grown included; Radishes, coriander, cabbages, endive, watermelons, cucumbers, cabbage, beans and melons were very common and widely grown. in making the country run properly so the Egyptians . w. orshipped gods for just about everything- flooding, health, love, having babies, the sun, the sky and so on.. There were over 2000 gods- that’s a lot more than all of the gods in all of the different religions that exist nowadays! The gods were male, or female (goddesses) and were often shown as having the body of a human and the head of an animal or bird. . Vocabulary. 1. . Fertile Crescent.  – the boomerang-shaped region of the Middle East that was home to some of the earliest human civilizations. Also known as the “Cradle of Civilization,”. 2. .