Food
Egyptians used to eat vegetables like onions, leeks, garlic, 
beans, lettuce, lentils, barley and more vegetables. They planted
crops by the Nile river, like that the crops could grow. 
They hunted too, meat and poultry, 
ducks, geese, gazelle, pigs, sheep and goats. Thousands of Egyptians grew crops and hunted.
Places 
Thousands of Egyptians built cities by the Nile river,   
like that they could grow crops  . 
The Nile river was like a  life-giving river. It flooded all over the
banks of the Nile river. It  led to the delta. And the delta led to the ocean.
 
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Gods & Religions
The Egyptians had more than all the Gods you can think of, like for example, 
Nut was the goddess of the sky. Nut is sometimes blue and covered with stars.   
and she spit it out at sunrise. She swallowed the sun at night. 
She had giant wings on her. Beautiful colors,
orange blue green and lots of other colors. And what about the Gods?
Well a God named Bes, he was the god who protected the children from evil
spirits. He enjoyed dancing and singing. He was a little short, fat, he was
a jolly God. The Egyptians believed that after mummification, the body would
go into another world ( The afterlife). The people who did not have enough
money to afford a pyramid built tombs. But the pharaohs built pyramids. In-
side the pyramids they put food, and cloth for the next world.
   
Did any of you people out there know what the Egyptians invented? Well they
invented calendars! (Not like the ones used today) It was a 365-day and 12
month calendar. 30 days in each month and 10 days in a week. All of the rest
5  days there was a feast. They also invented the writing! (Not at all like
ours!) They were like drawing writing! It is called hieroglyphs.
 Like for example letter "A" was wrote as a bird! The Egyptians had to 
have some thing to write on, didn't they? So they invented the papyrus
( pa-pur-us)! They used it as paper. First to make it they gathered reeds
then cut the outside bark then cut the reeds into strips after that soak
the reeds in water, last they pounded wet strips into paper. Then they could  write the drawing writing on the papyrus!
 
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                      People
In Egypt there were Lots of pharaohs. Like one of them were King Tutankhamen
he was a powerful and strong king. Tutankhamen ruled Egypt at 9 to 17, But 
at 17 he got murdered! people found his tomb on 1922. And he became the
most famous pharaoh. Nefertiti was a beautiful queen she was married to 
Akhenaten, She was famous for her beauty. But Akhenaten was the most unusual
king. He was hated because  he worshipped only  Ater! Almost all
Egypt was ruled by men. The women had to care for there kids and do all the
house chores. But one woman called Hatshepsut ( hat-shep'sut) became pharaoh
in 1500 B.C. Then other women started ruling Egypt But that women couldn't be pharaohs they tolled there son what to say.
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                                               Animals of the Nile
There were lots of animals of the Nile, like one was the pelican and the
gazelle. The hippos liked swimming in the Nile, There were antelopes too. 



The Egyptians went fishing the catfish at the Nile. Some times the hyenas
would steal the lions food.  Rams lived in the desert east and west of the
Nile river the jackals and oxen also lived there. pintail ducks, pelicans,
and geese swam in the Nile river. Too the crocodiles joined the swimming
with the hippos. The perch got fished too like the catfish.



  • Map
of Egypt - discover how the Nile river flows through this country.
  • Egypt - A
Country Study 
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  • Conestoga Elementary
School Online - a Wyoming elementary school online featuring an in-depth
student history project on Ancient Egypt.
  • Egyptian
Art Gallery - hand-painted scenes on papyrus from Egypt are
available for purchase. 
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    Institute of Egyptian Art & Archeology