Papyrus Scrolls Of The Ancient World

Ancient Egypt was a civilization located in Northeastern Africa concentrated along the lower edges of the Nile River. Originally Egypt was separated into two parts, Upper and Lower Egypt. The history of ancient Egypt occurred in a series of stable kingdoms separated by periods of relative instability. It was not until 3150 B.C. that Egyptian civilization really began to grow and prosper due to political unification. The success of ancient Egyptian civilization is often credited to the fact the people were able to adapt to the extreme conditions of the Nile River valley.

A brief walk through the history of the ancient Remetch script and its decipherment. The history of hieroglyphics is dated as far back to approximately 3150 BCE and remained in use for over 3300 years for many aspect of life. During that period the script has gone through several writing styles. The first change attested during the Naqada II period was called cursive hieroglyphic (hieratic), followed by Sekh Shah (demotic), and finally Coptic. These changes came about for use as an everyday script, in which every glyphs (phonograms) was replaced by simpler symbols, as a means for faster writing.

The Edwin papyrus is said to be based on the earlier writing from the Old Kingdom and dates back to the Dynasties time period of 16-17. Looking at the time line this might have been its place of origin. The main basis of this papyrus consists of medical cases dealing with surgical trauma. The detailed explanations and method of treatment and diagnoses were results and scientific based. As the other part of the papyrus is known as the Ebers Papyrus consists of medical scripts based in magic and focused on the physical and mental ailments, the Edwin Smith Papyrus is a medical version on surgical trauma and practical

Games in ancient Egypt are very interesting, complicated, and a lot of fun. In the modern day century, games and sports are a big industry. With football and soccer sports are worth millions of dollars and games are great for family fun. The ancient Egyptians had many games much like our modern day games. They have games such as the board game Senet, and games that look like modern sports such as hockey, and with the help of the general population they cherished sports.

Egypt, a transcontinental country that spans the north east corner of Africa and the southwest corner of Asia, houses the historic flooding Nile and the ancient man made Great Pyramids. The Nile is the only significant source of water in the dessert region and without it early civilizations would not have been able to develop and thrive like the Egyptian society has done throughout time. The Egyptian society origins can be traced back to the 10th millennium BC, with a culture of hunter and gatherers evolving into a grain-grinding society. With a change in climate and overgrazing, the Sahara desert began to form, thus early societies migrated to the banks of the Nile around 8000 BC. This migration contributed to the development of economic, political, and religious structure among the earliest of Egyptian societies.

Ancient Egypt, one of the most successful and spectacular civilizations in human history, has been studied by modern day scholars for its amazing accomplishments. Lasting for over 3,000 years, this civilization thrived in the Nile River Valley and grew to be a united kingdom with pharaohs, merchants, artisans, priests, teachers, and farmers. It can be argued that Egypt was the most highly advanced civilization of the time due to their stunning architecture, strong central government, and complex worldview that was highly optimistic and positive.

Linear B- a script found on clay tablets, uses pictorial signs to represent syllables, is recognized as an early form of Greek, kept track of people, animals and objects in extreme detail, government kept track and organized the production of grain and wool, tablets say nothing of individual people not even kings, very little about political and legal systems, social structures, gender relations and religious beliefs, (73)

Many people of the Fertile Crescent were polytheistic and believed that the gods controlled forces of nature.

In ancient times two neighboring civilizations emerged whose culture, economies, governments, and innovations were a result of the river systems on which they depended. Ancient Mesopotamia was in the Near East spanning modern day Iraq, Kuwait and parts of Syria, Turkey and Iran. Mesopotamia’s name in Ancient Greek is translated as “land between the rivers,” referring to the Tigris and Euphrates river systems between which Mesopotamia was located. In Ancient Egypt, as in modern day Egypt, the Nile River played a major role in this Northern African civilization.

Ancient Egypt is located in Northeastern Africa. The civilization settled along the Nile River, mainly because rivers are an important part of survival. Rivers provide fresh water that you can drink, bathe in, and even wash clothes in. The Nile River gives fertile soil also known as silt, and that can be used for farming. Also, the Egyptians used the Nile River as a trading route to trade goods with other civilizations. So you could say that the Nile River brings life, to ancient Egypt. Ancient Egypt is almost all desert, so when you think of a desert climate you wouldn’t think of farms being there. But thanks to the Nile, it flourishes the edges of the Sahara desert so there can be farms.

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World inspired awe and fascination during their time. There are seven wonders of the ancient world. The list was made by Antipater of Sidon. The list was made because of many reasons. Size, how it was made or the beauty of it. The only wonder of the ancient world that is still standing is the Pyramids of Giza which are located in Egypt near Cairo. The Pyramids were built by slaves and are 481 feet tall.

INTRO: The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World inspired awe and fascination during their time. The Seven Wonders include; the Great Pyramids at Giza, the Colossus of Rhodes, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artimas at Ephesus, the Statue of Zeus, the Mausoleum of Hallcannassus and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Most of the seven wonders were destroyed by earthquakes, except for the Great Pyramids at Giza, which is the only one still standing today. The Colossus of Rhodes was a large bronze statue which stood near the harbor of Rhodes. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built by King Nebuchadnezzer II for one of his wives, because she missed her homeland. The Temple of Artimas at Ephesus was built around 5000 bc. The Statue of Zeus was the most famous statue in the ancient world. The Mausoleum of Hallcannassus was famous because of its large size and decoration. All large tombs are named mausoleums today. The Lighthouse of Alexandria was designed by Greek architect, Sotratos.

When paper became a shortage for writing, so skins were developed, and became known as “Pergamene papers” From its name parchment is derived. The term often referred to a graduation diploma as a “sheep skin”, gets it origins from here.

In ancient egypt, the egyptians originally used clay tablets as a writing surface, but then soon discovered a new,better writing surface, made of papyrus,” what is papyus?” you ask. Papyrus is a natural occurring plant, which was mainly found near the Nile River. Papyrus used to grow in abundance, but now is very rare. The egyptians cut the papyrus reeds, and then soaked them in water, until they began to rot, then they lay the papyrus reeds next to each other and proceed to lay more stalks on top, mash them all together, and then you get something somewhat similar to a thick kind of paper. After the egyptians started using papyrus to write, Greece and Rome then started using Papyrus to write with, but it was not cheap, if you were going

.When people decide to study and become an Egyptologist it is required for them to learn hieroglyphics, Egyptian hieroglyphics was one of the writing systems used in ancient Egypt, because of their illustrated way of writing , important Greeks believed that the Egyptian hieroglyphs were something sacred, so they referred to them as ‘holy writing’ this why the word hieroglyph comes from the Greek hiero ‘holy’ and glypho ‘writing’. But in the ancient Egyptian language, hieroglyphs were called medu netjer, ‘the god's’ words’ because it was believed that writing was an invention of the gods.The writing was composed of three basic types of signs logograms that represented the words, phonograms, representing the sounds, and determinatives, placed