Pyramids at Giza – Ancient Egypt
Egyptian pyramids - the Step Pyramid at Giza What are the Pyramids? Like the Sumerians at the same time, the Egyptians around 3000-2500 BC devoted a lot of energy to building [...]
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Predynastic Egyptian mastabas
This model of an Egyptian house has more than one room (Louvre Museum, Paris) In the earliest days of the kingdom of Egypt, about 4000-3500 BC, Egypt was still divided [...]
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New Kingdom temples – Ancient Egypt
New Kingdom temples: Temple of Amon at Luxor No more pyramids! By the time of the New Kingdom, about 1500 BC, nobody was building pyramids anymore (that's how we know [...]
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Egyptian houses – Ancient Egypt
A model of an Egyptian house found in a tomb from the First Intermediate Period (about 2100 BC) Most Egyptian people lived in small houses like this one. The house [...]
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Egyptian furniture – Straw mats and baskets
Egyptian Headrest (Vatican Museum): Egyptian furniture Did Egyptian houses have furniture? Most Egyptian houses didn't have much furniture in them. The floor was plain dirt or clay. People slept on [...]
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Pyramids and houses – Ancient Egyptian architecture
Pyramids at Giza, Egypt People tend to think that Egyptian building styles stayed the same for the whole period of Ancient Egypt, from the beginning of the Old Kingdom to [...]
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How to build a pyramid – Ancient Egypt
Pyramid project: building a sand pyramid A pyramid project Ancient Egyptian pharaohs, like Mayan lords, built pyramids because they're a pretty easy shape to build. Pyramids are especially easy to [...]
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What is a wet nurse? History of wetnursing
What is a wet nurse? An ancient Egyptian wet nurse nursing a baby (From the tomb of one of the daughters of Akhenaten) What is a wet nurse? A wet [...]
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Seals and sealings – Economic history
Early sealing from West Asia About 3000 BC, as people started to live in cities and the world got more crowded, they also started to want a way to mark [...]
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Organizing farm work – History of farming
Egyptian wall painting of farm work Family farms Maybe when people first started farming, each family pretty much farmed by itself. Mom and Dad and the kids planted the grain [...]
