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What Is Ancient Egypt

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The civilization of Ancient Egypt is known for its amazing achievements in a whole range of fields, including art and architecture, engineering, medicine and statecraft. At 5500 BCE two big kingdoms developed along the Nile. Historians call them Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. Egypt was brought together under one leader about 3200 BCE.

Throughout Egypt's history beliefs and practices were always changing though the topics of fertility, rebirth, death and resurrection usually stayed constant. The ancient Egyptians had a tendency to merge new beliefs with the old ones rather than simply replace them. This tendency has made it difficult for new students to fully understand the ancient beliefs. We know of hundreds of gods and goddesses respect by the ancient Egyptians as their names, personalities and their aspects have survived in the artwork the human development left behind. Many of these had the same or similar roles. This is expected to both …show more content…

It rose in 6 stages and is called the step pyramid. It was generally to show a big stairway for the king to climb to join the sun-god in the sky. Later on kings had step pyramids too, but in the rule of King Sneferu the correct pyramid with tilting sides developed. The plan of this pyramid was to make the mound that had come out of the watery ground at the beginning of time, on which the sun-god stood and brought the other gods and goddesses into being. The biggest pyramid of all is the Great Pyramid at Giza. It was built for King Khufu in 2589 BC. The pyramids were planned to protect the bodies of the kings buried deep inside them. Later pyramids continued inscriptions of spells to help the pharaoh in the afterlife. Doors of granite and false passages were made to prevent robbers who came in pursuit of the rich offering buried with the kings, but by 1000 BC all the pyramids had been robbed of their precious

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