Nubia

Mahpiya Vanderbilt Archaeology 1 Bauer Mummies Ancient Egypt has become synonymous with mummies. The elaborate burials and preservation of the bodies is a defining factor of their culture. The word mummy comes from the Persian word mummia which means bitumen. The term was used in the middle ages to the embalmed bodies because of their blackened appearance of the skin, mistakenly thought to have been caused by the use of bitumen in their preservation when in actuality, the blackened appearance is…

Egypt is “the gift of the Nile”, as the Greek historian Herodotus stated around 400 B.C. Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, along the Nile River. The Nile, the world’s longest river, provided fertile soil, irrigation for crops, and reeds called papyrus for Egypt. Egyptians started producing papyrus paper (also called papyrus) as early as 3000 BC. Papyrus paper was more convenient than clay tablets (people used to write on them before papyrus paper), because they…

Egypt is full of ideas and interesting geography.The Nile river was the most important part of Egypt’s geography surrounded by east and west. Every year the Nile floods this gave Egyptians all their gifts like soil, plants, animals, and natural resources. The Greek historian Herodotus said, “Egypt is the gift of the Nile.” But really the Nile is a gift to Egyptians. The life-giving landscape of Egypt allowed the ancient Egyptians to progress. Even though Egyptians were scattered across the land…

How did the Nile shape ancient Egypt? Egypt lasted for about 2,000 years. The first pharaoh to ever rule over Egypt began his rule in 2920 BCE. The people of Egypt paid their taxes in wheat, and wheat was their main export. So wheat was like their money. Irrigation was the way they got water to their crops it was the only way for farms that weren't on the shore of the Nile to get water to their otherwise dry land. The Nile shaped ancient Egypt in the forms of settlement distribution, economics,…

The New Kingdom was the time of the warrior pharaohs and the eighteenth dynasty. Many well-known pharaohs and other important figures such as Tutankhamun and Nefertiti came from this impressive dynasty. A lesser-known pharaoh, also of the eighteenth dynasty, ruled Ancient Egypt before both figures but had greater significance in terms of their rule. The typical thought of a pharaoh is a man who is descendent of the royal family and is believed to be the direct link and descendent of the gods of…

Did the Nile Shape Ancient Egypt? Do you think could hike over 4,000 miles in 55 days? The Nile is river is the longest River on the world measuring over 4,000 miles. That’s a very long hike! That distance is the same as hiking from STL to seattle and back. For the Anicent Egyptians traveling up and down this long river was a way of life. The Nile shaped Anicent Egypt in at least 3 ways, The Nile provided precious water in a vast desert for sustaining crops, provided Transportation…

The Old Kingdom of Egypt was a period of time stretching roughly from 2686 BC - 2182 BC, containing the Third - Sixth Dynasties, and sometimes the Memphite Seventh and Eighth Dynasties. Though the exact times are often disputed, everyone agrees that this time period was filled with many early civilization advancements, and it is the first of three kingdom periods of the Nile Valley. The other two being the Middle Kingdom, 2050 BC - 1800 BC, and the New Kingdom, 1570 BC -1544 BC. Otherwise known…

Historians and archeologists have found evidence of human civilization in the Nile Valley dating as far back as 120,000 years ago. Over time, population began to grow and divide itself into two kingdoms, Upper and Lower Egypt. Around 3150 B.C., a pharaoh from the Early Dynastic Period gained control of both kingdoms uniting them to form the Egypt known today. With a population of 90 million, it makes Egypt the third most populated country in all of Africa. Roughly, 20 percent of this…

built by an Egyptian ruler, and is located within modern-day Egypt, in ancient times the place it was located in was considered part of Nubia, a territory that was at times independent of ancient Egypt. “The waxing and waning of Egypt’s strength can be traced through its relations with Nubia. When strong kings ruled a united land, Egyptian influence extended into Nubia; when Egypt was weak, its southern border stopped at Aswan,” writes Egyptologist Zahi Hawass…

Sources A. The first source I used was a website, http://www.aeraweb.org/projects/how-old-are-the-pyramids/ claims the pyramids in Nubia, located in modern day Sudan, are older than the pyramids in ancient Egypt. B.…