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Pyramids, mummies, amulets, temples, and pharaohs- Explore Ancient Egypt! brings this fascinating civilization to young readers ages 6-9 with 25 hands-on projects, activities, and games. Kids learn about ancient Egyptian homes, food, money, toys, games, makeup, clothes, kings, mummies, and more. Projects are easy to follow and require primarily common household products and very little adult supervision.Activities range from making a scarab necklace to writing in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and making King Tut sandals. By combining a hands-on element with riddles, jokes, facts, and comic cartoons, kids Explore Ancient Egypt! in this accessible introduction to an incredible, ancient world.

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Publié par	Nomad Press
Date de parution	01 janvier 2008
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781619301092
Langue	English
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION Let’s Explore Egypt!
CHAPTER 1 Egyptian Homes
CHAPTER 2 Beer, Bread & Bartering
CHAPTER 3 Playtime
CHAPTER 4 Amulets, Clothes & Makeup
CHAPTER 5 King Tut & Other Cool Kings
CHAPTER 6 Mummies & Pyramids
LET’S EXPLORE EGYPT!

Y ou’ve probably played in sand or gone swimming. You’ve probably also played a board game or helped around the house. Maybe you’ve taken care of a pet or slept outdoors. Guess what? Kids who lived in ancient Egypt did these things, too!
Where was ancient Egypt? What was it like to live there? What did kids and their parents wear, eat, or do for work or fun? This book is going to explore ancient Egypt, an amazing place that existed thousands of years ago, from 3100 BCE to 639 CE !

Explore Ancient Egypt! will answer many of your questions and share some really cool facts. You’ll get to learn about things like mummies , pyramids , kohl makeup, and pharaohs . One of these famous pharaohs was King Tut. Did you know he’s called the Boy King because he was just nine years old when he took over the throne?
Along the way, we’re going to make lots of fun projects, play games, do activities, and hear some goofy jokes. Ready? Let’s explore!

WHERE IN THE WORLD WAS ANCIENT EGYPT?
Ancient Egypt was in the northeastern part of Africa. It was in the Sahara Desert . The Sahara is the biggest and hottest desert in the world. A desert is an area with very little rain. Ancient Egypt’s daytime temperatures were over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat and the sand made life tough for the ancient Egyptians. They had to be careful about sunburn, and sand got into everything. It even got into the bread they baked, which caused their teeth to wear down. Ouch!
But the desert also had its good points. For example, it protected ancient Egyptians from enemies. Not many people wanted to cross the hot, sandy land! And thanks to the desert, we know a lot about ancient Egypt. How? Well, the desert sand preserved a lot of ancient Egyptian buildings and things ancient people used. Since these things are still around, we can look at them and learn. Some people study buildings, art, and everyday objects from ancient Egyptian times. They are called Egyptologists .

Ancient Egypt was divided into two lands. One was Upper Egypt and the other was Lower Egypt. If you looked at a map of ancient Egypt, you’d see something strange. You might even say, “Hey, it’s upside down!” That’s because Upper Egypt was below Lower Egypt on the map. There is a simple reason for this. It has to do with the Nile River .

BCE: an abbreviation that means Before Common Era.
CE: an abbreviation that means Common Era, after the birth of Christ.
mummy: a dried and preserved dead body.
pyramid: large, stone structures with square bases and triangular sides where pharaohs were buried.
pharaoh: ancient Egyptian kings or rulers.
Sahara Desert: the largest, hottest desert in the world.
Egyptologist: someone who studies ancient Egypt.

WOW
Nile Green is a color. It’s a pale, yellowish-green. And, yep! It got its name from the color of the Nile River.

A SHIP FIT FOR A KING

Most of the small boats in ancient Egypt were made of reeds. To build bigger, wooden boats, the Egyptians had to get wood from different parts of the world. Wooden boats were often curved up at the ends just like the reed boats. These fancy, wooden boats were called papyriform boats . They were sometimes used as funeral boats to carry the pharaoh to his tomb.
One of the most famous papyriform boats is the Royal Ship of Khufu. Khufu was an Egyptian king. He was buried in the Great Pyramid. In 1954 Egyptologists found the ship buried near the Great Pyramid. The ship is 150 feet long and was in 1,200 pieces! They had to put it together like one big puzzle. Today it is inside a special museum that was built right over the spot where the pieces were found. We don’t know if the ship was actually used as King Khufu’s funeral boat. Maybe King Khufu just wanted a very fancy boat to use in the afterlife !
THE NILE RIVER
The Nile River is the longest river in the world. It’s over 4,200 miles long and runs right through the Sahara Desert. It was very important to the ancient Egyptians. One of the neat things about the Nile is that it runs south to north. Most rivers run north to south. The land downstream was Lower Egypt. Because the other area was upstream, it was called Upper Egypt.

There is another neat thing about the Nile. It used to flood every year in ancient times. This flooding, called the inundation , was the key to life in ancient Egypt. The floodwaters left behind silt . These silt deposits added minerals to the soil and made it rich and fertile. The ancient Egyptians planted crops in this soil.

Nile River: the longest river in the world and an important part of ancient Egyptian life.
inundation: another word for flooding.
papyriform boats: wooden boats that curved up at the ends to look like reed boats, often used as funeral boats.
Royal Ship of Khufu: a famous example of a papyriform boat, found in pieces, buried near the Great Pyramid.
afterlife: the ancient Egyptians believed in life after death.
silt: the good farming soil left over after the Nile flooded.

Besides water and good soil for farmland, the Nile gave ancient Egyptians a place to swim and fish. It also gave them a way to travel. Ancient Egyptians were great boat builders. Poor people made small boats to use for fishing. These boats were made out of reeds. Guess what they were called? Reed boats!
Rich people had bigger boats made out of wood. They used these boats to travel up and down the Nile on vacation in style. Workers used even bigger boats, called barges, to move things like the rocks used to build pyramids and temples.
Ancient Egypt had two types of land areas. These two areas had colorful names. Ancient Egyptians called the land near the banks of the Nile the Kemet , which meant Black Land. This is because silt made the soil black. The ancient Egyptians called the desert Deshret , which meant the Red Land.
MAKE A PAPYRUS PLANT AND A LOTUS FLOWER
Ancient Egyptians used symbols in their writing and art. The symbol for Lower Egypt was the papyrus plant. The symbol for Upper Egypt was the lotus flower. Many times, these two plants are shown together in ancient Egyptian art. This is done to represent how King Menes united the two lands around 3100 BCE.

1 To make a papyrus plant, use the green crayon to color both sides of a coffee filter. The filter is soft so be careful not to tear it while you color.
2 Fold the coffee filter in half. Fold it in half again. This is your plant bud.
3 Wrap one end of a pipe cleaner around the bottom, pointy end of the plant bud. The pipe cleaner is your plant’s steam. Open up the other end of your coffee filter to finish your papyrus plant.
4 Roll some clay into a mound. Stick your plant’s steam into the clay.
5 Make more papyrus plants and add them to the clay mound.
THEN & NOW

THEN: The capital of ancient Egypt was Memphis.
NOW: The capital of Egypt is Cairo.

1 To make a lotus flower, use the blue crayon to color both sides of a coffee filter. Fold the filter as you did before.
2 Carefully cut small triangles into the top edge of the filter. The lotus flower has pointy petals.
3 Wrap a green pipe cleaner around the bottom of the flower bud. Add the lotus flower to the mound of clay.
4 Egyptian artists often drew the lotus flower turned sideways. If you want, you can tilt your flower by bending the pipe cleaner.

Supplies
blue and green crayons or colored pencils
coffee filters
green pipe cleaners
scissors
1 stick of clay
MAKE YOUR OWN REED BOAT
Reed boats were made out of the reeds of a papyrus plant. Because the reeds were bundled together, the ends of the boat curved up. Most ancient Egyptians used reed boats. Wooden boats were expensive. This is because there weren’t many trees in the desert, and the trees that were there didn’t make good planks. Wood had to come from other countries. Here’s a way to make a model of a reed boat that really floats. You will be using spray paint for this project, so you’ll need a grownup around.
1 Pinch one end of a straw and put it into the end of another straw. Make sure the bendable parts of the straws are at the outside ends. Do the same thing