Valley of the Kings

Mesopotamia and the Indus River Valley were two successful and productive empires. These two societies had distinct cultures but have certain likeness to them . These traits are useful in explaining the differences and similarities in these two cultures. Mesopotamian civilization was split into various city states, meaning having a political unit made up of a city and the surrounding lands. With the city-state, Mesopotamia each had its own laws and priest/kings, however, the people had no power.…

500 years. Some 600 miles up the Nile valley, south of Cairo, you come upon the Valley of the Kings. Here the pharaohs made secret tombs in the sides of mountains. The Valley of the Kings is one of the most isolated spots on earth. Almost nothing grows there – no tree, no shrub, no blade of grass. The sun hits down from an everlastingly clear sky whose bright blue is the only colour divergence to the dull, constant dark gold rock and sand, hills and valley floor. All along the desert cliffs…

The Funerary Mask of King Tutankhamun Ever heard the phrase Kings never die, well neither do Pharaohs. For year’s archeologist have been discovering tombs of pharaohs and their families trying to get an understanding of who they were. Many tombs of the pharaohs were ravaged through and amazing art was taken by tomb robbers but still they were able to find beautiful works of art and even funeral masks. Arguably the most famous mask to date is King Tutankhamun. Along with the mask there were many…

living in the Age of Human Error.” Says American author Florence King. King could have been talking about the characters in F. Scotts Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The great Gatsby is about the roaring twenties when wealth and the American Dream meant a lot to people. Gatsby is not actually interested in achieving the American dream but feels like doing so he will be able to win back the heart of Daisy, who is stuck, like Florence King said, in a dream world were they need everything. The…

advancements in language, size, and trade, or by comparing city-state and territorial-state perameters. In this essay I will discuss the Indus Valley Civilizations, and more specifically Mohenjo-daro with regards to its similarities and differences to Mesopotamian, and Egyptian civilizations, and its status as a city-sate or territorial-state. Although the Indus Valley Civilizations were bigger than Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations, they are the least known about. It is only within the…

grow their food instead of catch it. Then 6000 years later, in the year 3000 B.C., it was the beginning of a change in life because civilizations began to emerge, more pacifically, river valley civilizations. River valley civilizations are complex, highly organized social order that was established along a river valley. There were four cities that rose self-reliantly: the…

Ancient Egyptian Life Egypt is among the oldest civilizations on earth. Most Egyptians probably descended from settlers who moved to the Nile valley in prehistoric times, and from immigrants of nearby countries. Most people lived in villages and towns in the Nile valley as farmers. The most favoured location of settlements would be on slightly raised ground near the riverbank, where an annual flooding of the Nile would mark the beginning of each farming season. The Egyptians planted wheat and…

receiving, Superior Court Judge Stanley Weisberg agreed to move the case from Los Angeles to Simi Valley, California a predominate white residential community which is located thirty miles from Los Angeles. The prosecution in this case motioned to have the case be tried in a more diverse county like Alameda. Since Simi Valley is where police officers are known to reside, Judge suggested that moving it to Simi Valley will guarantee a fair trial in their own environment. March 5, 1992 the trial…

weighing systems, the Indus valley civilization developed standardized weights and measures which continued to be used by second-wave empires. To put briefly, many inventions from first-wave societies continued to be used – but improved upon, and many completely new innovations were made as…

Courage is being explored in the books “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Chasing the Valley” in many different ways. Harper Lee has unpacked bravery in the same way as Skye Melki-Wegner. For instance, Taladia in “Chasing the Valley” is a violent and run-down city which compels the characters to show courage and their will to live. Equivalently Maycomb, in Harper Lee’s novel is a prejudiced town where it requires an immense amount of bravery to go against the norm. By building up more and more…