Through interconnections between art and writing, the ancient Egyptians communicated with images. In ancient Egypt art was not made just as creative expression for aesthetic appreciation or entertainment. Art was functional, sometimes fulf...
Religion was central to ancient Egyptian culture. Many concepts and beliefs about divine influences in the world intersect with modern categories of not just religion, but also medicine and magic. Throughout much of ancient history Egyptia...
Ancient Egyptian writing is known as “hieroglyphs,” a word that literally means “sacred engravings” in Greek. The Egyptian language evolved through several phases over the approximately 3,500 years of ancient Egyptian history, with changes...
The clearest evidence for how the ancient Egyptians went about their day-to-day lives comes from archaeology and art. Archaeologists excavate the remains of cities, towns, and houses to find the remnants of objects used by people in the ar...
[NOTE: THIS LESSON TOPIC INCLUDES IMAGES OF HUMAN REMAINS.] Although mummies and mummification are among the most popular topics about ancient Egypt, the practice of “making mummies” was not always a major part of ancient Egyptian religiou...
Ancient Egypt’s royal pyramids were not isolated monuments. A pyramid joined with several other buildings to form a complex. The other major buildings include a Pyramid Temple next to the pyramid itself, a Valley Temple further way from th...
Social status in ancient Egypt can be approached, on one hand, as the degree of freedom and influence people experienced in society, and on the other hand as their ability to access, accumulate, or control resources and valuables (ancient...
Often called “the Pyramid Age” the Old Kingdom (2649 –2100 BCE) is one of three “kingdom” periods in the traditional divisions of ancient Egyptian history. The other two are the Middle Kingdom (2061–1640 BCE) and the New Kingdom (1550–1070...
[NOTE: THIS LESSON TOPIC INCLUDES IMAGES OF HUMAN REMAINS.] Giza is a necropolis site with several cemeteries densely packed with tombs and burials. The main cemeteries (Eastern Cemetery, Western Cemetery, and the Central Field) originally...
Most sources of information about ancient Egyptian women were produced by men, and they usually represent an elite perspective of their times. Ancient Egyptian culture and administration operated to the benefit of men, leaving a much narro...
