Ancient Egypt is widely known across the US as having creepy tombs with riches and treasures, along with spooky mummies and curses. This is unusual to many historians because other ancient cultures, such as the many dynasties of Ancient China, the Sumerians, and the Mayans aren’t as well known as the Ancient Egyptians. The majority of people are unaware of the Yellow River in China, rather they are more familiar with the Nile River in Egypt. The Egyptian’s had a more significant culture than any other society of the time, although some argue that the Egyptians are no better nor worse than the other ancient empires. They had a more developed religion, more complex architecture, and a more expansive empire. In Egyptian religion there are a vast
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The Egyptians also believed that their rulers, also known as Pharaohs, were part god. The Egyptians also mummified their rulers and officials and buried them in tombs filled with treasures. They believed that they would rise again and use the tools and riches left in the tomb in the afterlife. This is one of the major things that is very popular in western culture because of it’s uniqueness and how different it is from anything historians had seen before. The Egyptians went to a serious extent to preserved their dead by removing the brain through the nostrils, drying the internal organs and waiting up to 70 days just to perform the next step in the burial. The most famous of these preserved bodies, known as King Tut, was discovered by Howard Carter on November 26, 1922. The Pharaoh Tutankhamun died when he was only 18 and never …show more content…
Although Egypt’s territory isn’t bunched together it stretches quite far compared to other ancient empire going as south as Napata to as far north as Palestine during the New Kingdom. Egypt was also able to push back the Nubians and expand into their soil during the age of the New Kingdom. Ancient Mesopotamians on the other hand only had the land around the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers whilst under Sumerian rule. This isn’t even near the amount of land that the Egyptians were controlling during the New Kingdom, but it also must be taken into account that Mesopotamia expanded later under other
The Egyptians also believed that their rulers, also known as Pharaohs, were part god. The Egyptians also mummified their rulers and officials and buried them in tombs filled with treasures. They believed that they would rise again and use the tools and riches left in the tomb in the afterlife. This is one of the major things that is very popular in western culture because of it’s uniqueness and how different it is from anything historians had seen before. The Egyptians went to a serious extent to preserved their dead by removing the brain through the nostrils, drying the internal organs and waiting up to 70 days just to perform the next step in the burial. The most famous of these preserved bodies, known as King Tut, was discovered by Howard Carter on November 26, 1922. The Pharaoh Tutankhamun died when he was only 18 and never …show more content…
Although Egypt’s territory isn’t bunched together it stretches quite far compared to other ancient empire going as south as Napata to as far north as Palestine during the New Kingdom. Egypt was also able to push back the Nubians and expand into their soil during the age of the New Kingdom. Ancient Mesopotamians on the other hand only had the land around the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers whilst under Sumerian rule. This isn’t even near the amount of land that the Egyptians were controlling during the New Kingdom, but it also must be taken into account that Mesopotamia expanded later under other