Follow me as we get ¨wrapped up¨ in Ancient Egypt! Ancient Egypt was a fascinating culture that left behind pyramids and some of the first written language! This page contains some of the unit vocabulary words. These definitions will be helpful as you learn about the Ancient Egyptian culture.
Rosetta Stone a slab that was inscribed in three different languages. On the top there are Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The middle is demotic script. The very bottom of the stone is Ancient Greek. The Rosetta Stone was a very big slab because of the three languages inscribed on it. The Rosetta Stone is a neat part of history because we can translate it and learn more about the Ancient Egyptians and Ancient Greeks!
Afterlife is where you go after you die if you believe in life after death. The Ancient Egyptians put the mummified Pharaohs into a pyramid. In the pyramid, along with the mummy, they would put multiple pitchers of water, food and riches. The Egyptians believed that this would make the Pharaoh have a good afterlife.
Schema Connection: In my religion (Christianity) we believe in heaven.
Tomb is the burial place of a dead person. The tomb has a stone with writing on it. The stone marks where that person was buried.
Schema Connection: In the U.S. we have tombs and headstones. People are typically buried in a cemetery. The headstone helps people remember that person for who they were before they died. I have been to a funeral before and there was a special tombstone that showed the woman's personality.
Mummification is when a person dies and their body is preserved. The people who prepare the body for mummification take all the organs out. An interesting fact about the mummification process is that the people who mummified took the brain out of the body through the nose! Not everyone in the Ancient Egyptian culture was preserved as a mummy after they died. Only Pharaohs and the very rich were mummified. The mummification process was completed as soon as possible because they didn't want the body to start decomposing.
Sarcophagus is a stone coffin that usually has statues and other things to represent the person that died. Back then, the stone would have been hard to carve because it was stone and there were few ¨modern¨ tools for carving.
Schema Connection: In the U.S., when a loved one dies, we typically bury them in a casket made of wood or metal. A tombstone is placed at the gravesite to mark that that beloved person is there.
Ankh is a symbol that is used for eternal life. The symbol is a cross with a circle attached above the cross.
Schema Connection: This is like the fish symbol in Christianity. They both mean different things, but they both have the same purpose of symbolizing something.
Hieroglyphs are groups of symbols that can represent a sound, sounds or objects. Hieroglyphs were carved in stone and drawn in dirt. Hieroglyphs were also carved in the Rosetta Stone. These groupings of symbols can make sentences that are like our sentences in English. Hieroglyphs were some of the first written language. Only the scribes were allowed to have the knowledge to read and write. It would be horrible to not be able to read and write. It would be hard not to communicate through writing.
Repatriate is giving something back to its place of origin.
Schema Connection: In Mr. Grobe's class we did a debate on the mummy of Artemidorus. My debate group almost had to repatriate the sarcophagus from the British Museum to the museum in Cairo, Egypt.
Archaeology is the study of past human life. An archeologist is a scientist who looks at bones, tombs, destroyed homes, and waste to learn more about past civilizations. Archeologists have made important discoveries and we have learned so much about ancient cultures from their work.
Pharaoh is similar to a king. In Ancient Egyptian culture, a pharaoh was considered a walking god. These pharaohs were very well worshiped because the people of Egypt thought the pharaoh could make their lives really good or really bad. Upon their deaths, pharaohs were mummified and put into a pyramid along with water, food and riches for the afterlife. There were pharaohs that were well-known, while there were others that have never been heard of. However, they were all important to shaping the Ancient Egyptian culture!
Now let's explore:
Physical Geography
Universals of Culture
Government Types
Economic Types
Rosetta Stone a slab that was inscribed in three different languages. On the top there are Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The middle is demotic script. The very bottom of the stone is Ancient Greek. The Rosetta Stone was a very big slab because of the three languages inscribed on it. The Rosetta Stone is a neat part of history because we can translate it and learn more about the Ancient Egyptians and Ancient Greeks!
Afterlife is where you go after you die if you believe in life after death. The Ancient Egyptians put the mummified Pharaohs into a pyramid. In the pyramid, along with the mummy, they would put multiple pitchers of water, food and riches. The Egyptians believed that this would make the Pharaoh have a good afterlife.
Schema Connection: In my religion (Christianity) we believe in heaven.
Tomb is the burial place of a dead person. The tomb has a stone with writing on it. The stone marks where that person was buried.
Schema Connection: In the U.S. we have tombs and headstones. People are typically buried in a cemetery. The headstone helps people remember that person for who they were before they died. I have been to a funeral before and there was a special tombstone that showed the woman's personality.
Mummification is when a person dies and their body is preserved. The people who prepare the body for mummification take all the organs out. An interesting fact about the mummification process is that the people who mummified took the brain out of the body through the nose! Not everyone in the Ancient Egyptian culture was preserved as a mummy after they died. Only Pharaohs and the very rich were mummified. The mummification process was completed as soon as possible because they didn't want the body to start decomposing.
Sarcophagus is a stone coffin that usually has statues and other things to represent the person that died. Back then, the stone would have been hard to carve because it was stone and there were few ¨modern¨ tools for carving.
Schema Connection: In the U.S., when a loved one dies, we typically bury them in a casket made of wood or metal. A tombstone is placed at the gravesite to mark that that beloved person is there.
Ankh is a symbol that is used for eternal life. The symbol is a cross with a circle attached above the cross.
Schema Connection: This is like the fish symbol in Christianity. They both mean different things, but they both have the same purpose of symbolizing something.
Hieroglyphs are groups of symbols that can represent a sound, sounds or objects. Hieroglyphs were carved in stone and drawn in dirt. Hieroglyphs were also carved in the Rosetta Stone. These groupings of symbols can make sentences that are like our sentences in English. Hieroglyphs were some of the first written language. Only the scribes were allowed to have the knowledge to read and write. It would be horrible to not be able to read and write. It would be hard not to communicate through writing.
Repatriate is giving something back to its place of origin.
Schema Connection: In Mr. Grobe's class we did a debate on the mummy of Artemidorus. My debate group almost had to repatriate the sarcophagus from the British Museum to the museum in Cairo, Egypt.
Archaeology is the study of past human life. An archeologist is a scientist who looks at bones, tombs, destroyed homes, and waste to learn more about past civilizations. Archeologists have made important discoveries and we have learned so much about ancient cultures from their work.
Pharaoh is similar to a king. In Ancient Egyptian culture, a pharaoh was considered a walking god. These pharaohs were very well worshiped because the people of Egypt thought the pharaoh could make their lives really good or really bad. Upon their deaths, pharaohs were mummified and put into a pyramid along with water, food and riches for the afterlife. There were pharaohs that were well-known, while there were others that have never been heard of. However, they were all important to shaping the Ancient Egyptian culture!
Now let's explore:
Physical Geography
Universals of Culture
Government Types
Economic Types