Tutankhamun

Located in northeastern Africa, Egypt is bordered by the Mediterranean on one side, a desert on another, and mountains on a third. This geography let the Egyptians live in relative peace around the River Nile. The Nile is over 4000 miles long and its annual floods fertilized the surrounding valley. The Egyptians gradually learned how to manage and store the water in canals and basins for irrigation, and they used measuring devices called a nilometers to measure the water levels. By implementing…

Ancient Egypt and ancient Mesopotamia were two of the world’s earliest city-based civilizations. They were strong forces to contend with, and each built thriving empires that lasted for thousands of years. Even though they may have faced difficult or destructive times, they had lasting and influential effects on the rest of history world. They both formed the foundation for Middle Eastern and Western history, and established examples for other future river valley civilizations. However, despite…

A popular Masterpiece theme opens the world of England in the 1900’s. Julian Fellows’ Downton Abbey follows an English blue-blooded family through the 20th century and the many relationships and historical events that happen within it. Downstairs, viewers get a glimpse of a servant’s life with all the turmoil, trials, and tribulations that come with maintaining a household. Upstairs, viewers follows an aristocratic family who strives to keep the fortune within their name. Downton Abbey not only…

Zhu Yuanzhang: Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-1398) was a peasant who became the leader of a nonconformity against the Yuan rulers (1279-1368) called the Red Turbans. Then became the first emperor of the Ming Empire. During his youth, he was extremely poor. Several of his brothers were sent or sold away, and then his family was killed by a flood. He was poverty stricken. He went to a Buddhist monastery where he learned to read and write when he was 24 years old. He established a capital in…

Egyptian Disruption In the year 1352 BC a pharaoh named Amenhotep IV came to power in Egypt. He inherited a peaceful nation at the height of its prosperity from his father Amenhotep III. However, he attempted to lead a religious, political and artistic revolution that was so disruptive that he was met with resistance from nearly every level. By the end of his sixteen year reign in 1336 BC he was known as Akhenaten and he had brought his nation to near collapse. Akhenaten had the fortune of…

Children’s Resources Nonfiction Books (4) Arlon, P. (2014). Ancient Egypt. New York: Scholastic Inc. This source contains a general overview of Ancient Egypt. This resource will be provided to help students understand the features of Ancient Cairo as a civilization. It includes information about food, traditions, pharaohs, gods and goddesses, monuments, afterlife, and general Ancient Egyptian way of life. This resource also includes a section that compares Ancient inventions to current…

Throughout history, artists have depicted women to uphold different ideals of beauty that directly correlated with the world around them. The Bust of Queen Nefertiti, depicting the grace and power of a dominant Egyptian queen that corresponds with both the views of women as well as idealized beauty of the Amarna period; the Venus of Urbino, a piece that portrays the ideals of beauty, of the Renaissance that still remains fairly unknown in purpose and depiction; and Judith Slaying Holofernes,…

Egypt now known as the Arab Republic of Egypt is bordered by Israel, the Gulf of Aqaba, the Red Sea, Sudan and Libya. Since 1000BC Egypt became a dominate nation with one of the longest recorded histories of any modern country. As part of the cradle of civilization ancient Egypt developed some of the earliest forms of literature, agriculture, organized religion, urban development and style of government. Egypt 's cultural heritage became an important part of its national identity. With its…

once the person had died/the heart was warped and put back in the chest/the rest of the body with sarcophagus was dressed /pyramids were built to hold your treasures/the most famous to be found of these large tombs/was that of the young pharaoh Tutankhamun” lines (7-20). It was the process of the mummification by extracting the brain from the head and then embalmed remove everything from the abdomen except heart on the grounds that he will play a key role during the dead court then put the…

ironically, these varying funerary practices shed some of the brightest light on how these cultures existed in life. Some of the greatest leaps in understanding of antiquity have arisen because of discovery and study of burial sites. From King Tutankhamun to Gokstad, Norway to Tezcatlipoca, we in the modern age can thank death rites for some of our deepest knowledge of mankind’s development and…