Ancient Egypt!

A 1st through 3rd grade project

 Objectives
I can understand art history and the
importance of art on ancient cultures
 Lascaux to the Nile
Lascaux Cave:
c.17,000- 15,000 BCE
Ancient Egypt c.
6000-332 BCE
http://www.historyforkids.net/timeline.html
 What makes Egypt so important?
They built large buildings called PYRAMIDS,
which still stand today.
They created one of the first written
languages that has been fully translated
They were ruled by a king called a Pharaoh
They had a unique religion about the afterlife
 Pyramids
Pyramids were built as a burial place for Kings (pharoahs)
The most famous of all the true pyramids is the Great Pyramid
at Giza, which is the largest of the three Giza pyramids.
The Great Pyramid was built in 2528 B.C. for King Khufu, which
means that it is more than 4500 years old.
It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
It was the tallest building in the world for more than 4000
years, until the 20th century.
It is built from over 2 million huge blocks of limestone.
It was covered with great smooth slabs of white limestone,
but these were later removed to build the city of Cairo.

Inside a Pyramid
 Hieroglyphs
Picture words a picture represents a word
or sound
 Cartouche
A king or queens name when
written in a hieroglyphs were
surrounded by a magical rope in
order to protect it.
Your turn!
Try to spell
out your
name in
hieroglyphs
inside the
cartouche
Make a cartouche into a shrinky dink
jewelry
Make a Cartouche out of Clay
 More fun resources
Want to know more about Ancient
Egypt? Go to
http://www.historyforkids.net/ancie
nt-egypt.html
Find out your name in Egyptian here:
http://www.virtual-
egypt.com/newhtml/glyph/glyph.ht
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