Things of interest you may not know about:
Objects
shaduff or shadoof (water machine) cartouche (how Egyptians wrote names in hieroglyphics) Egyptian Book of the Dead scarab (cool bug that has special properties for the ancient Egyptians) papyrus (the plant that ancient paper was made from) cartonnage (can you say death mask?) (What were they usually made from? (Not Gold) mastaba (these came before the pyramid) |
People and Animals
scribe cats (check out the long history and the mummies) papyrologist (what do they study?) Alara of Nubia Amenhotep, son of Hapu Thutmose III Akhenaten and Nefertiti (the pharaoh who introduced monotheism) Hatshepsut Ramesses II the Great |