Religion
Religion lasted for 3,000 years.
How long did religion last?
People can name Nefertiti and Cleopatra as ruling queens of Egypt from the past.
Who were the queens
The daily life in ancient Egypt was actually much different than the vision that commonly comes to mind.
Is the daily life in Egypt different from what come to mind today?
Set against the exotic backdrop of the Egyptian desert.
What was the backdrop behind the Egyptian pyramids?
These maps of ancient Egypt seek to highlight representative aspects of the country.
What do they seek?
They were bound by tradition and unwilling to change.
Did they want change?
Women achieved the status of sole rulers.
What did woman achieve?
Relics found in archaeological digs as well as paintings and drawings on pyramid and tomb walls.
What was found during the digs in Egypt?
These stone temples.
What were they made of?
Egypt as we know it today and the always important River Nile.
What made Egypt so important?
Different gods rose and declined in popularity and importance over the millennia.
Were the gods of millennia important in some way?
They all played significant parts in the ancient Egyptian history.
Did all of them play important role in ancient Egyptian history?
Egyptian religion was polytheistic.
What was Egyptian religion?
Memories back to the days of pharaohs and mummies.
Did they have memories back to the times of mummies and pharaohs?
Here's a map of ancient Egypt with all major cities, pyramids and temples.
What does the map show?
There were 700 gods and goddesses.
How many gods and goddesses?
Queen MerNeith ruled over Egypt during the First Dynasty?
What did the Queen rule over?
Ancient Egypt was not much different from the food we eat today.
Was Egyptian food different from today?
Throughout history there have been many theories regarding the exact manner in which the Egyptian pyramids were built.
What were the theories?
Here's an interactive map of modern Egypt.
Egyptians believed in polytheism, or many gods.
What god did the Egyptians believe in?
She is believed to have risen to power after the death of her husband, King Djet.
Does she sound sad about her husband's death?
People lived much shorter lives and often had access to less nutritious foods.
Did they have much shorter lives because they had less nutritious food to eat?
The Egyptians built all their pyramids on the West bank of the Nile.
Where did they build there pyramids?
Desert: hot, dry summers with moderate winters.
What is it like in the summers?