Egypt: Differences Between Upper Egypt And The Mediterranean Sea

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Upper Egypt: A strip of land on both sides of the nile valley.

Lower Egypt: Between Upper Egypt and the Mediterranean sea.

Nile Delta: Where the Nile run into the Mediterranean Sea.

The original purpose of a tomb was to protect the dead and provide the deceased with a dwelling equipped with necessities for the afterlife.

Rocks were quarried from as far as 600 miles (960 kilometers) away in Aswan and transported to Giza, probably on rafts down The Nile during the rainy season.

They are made of rock.

In ancient Egypt people shave their eyebrows as a memorial to when their cat died.

The afterlife was incredibly important to the Egyptians. They believed that by preserving a dead person's body - which they did through the process

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