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pyramids

100

what was the first pyramid 

Step Pyramid

200

what was the most famous pyramid

the Great Pyramid at Giza

300

what was the least famous pyramid

Meidum Pyramid 

400

how do they build pyramids 

Egyptians cut and moved stone

500

what were the pyramids for 

The ancient Egyptians built pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs and their queens. The pharaohs were buried in pyramids of many different shapes and sizes from before the beginning of the Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom. There are about eighty pyramids known today from ancient Egypt.

pharos

100

who was the most popular pharo  

Ramses II

200

who was the very first pharo 

Narmer

300

who build the step pyramid 

Djoser

400

who was the pharo who got cursed

Tutankhamun

500

what did the Pharaohs believe in

The Egyptians believed their pharaoh to be the mediator between the gods and the world of men. After death the pharaoh became divine, identified with Osiris, the father of Horus and god of the dead, and passed on his sacred powers and position to the new pharaoh, his son.

hieroglyphics

100

who wrote the first hieroglyphics

Jean-François Champollion

200

how were hieroglyphics discovered

By accident, a stone that exhibited three different scripts—hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek—was discovered by members of Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1799 near Rashīd (French: Rosette; English: Rosetta) on the Mediterranean coast. ... He was the first to isolate correctly some single-consonant hieroglyphic signs.

300

how do you understand hieroglyphics

Hieroglyphs are written in rows or columns and can be read from left to right or from right to left. You can distinguish the direction in which the text is to be read because the human or animal figures always face towards the beginning of the line.

400

how do you write hieroglyphics

Hieroglyphs are written in rows or columns and can be read from left to right or from right to left. You can distinguish the direction in which the text is to be read because the human or animal figures always face towards the beginning of the line. Also the upper symbols are read before the lower.

500

Who discovered Egyptian hieroglyphs?

122. It was not until the nineteenth century that Egyptian hieroglyphs were deciphered. Several people had been trying to crack the code when the brilliant young Frenchman, Jean-François Champollion discovered the secret to this ancient writing.