ancient Egyptian gods
What is Anubis god of?
Anubis, god of death and is the oldest and most popular of Egyptian deities.
The art of ancient Egyptians remained much the same over the course of their 3,000 year rule.
How long did the art remain?
Octavian, with the backing of Rome, officially declared war against Cleopatra.
Who declared war on Cleopatra?
The hieroglyphics involved a series of 'picture' words.
what was involved in hieroglyphics?
Religion was a vital part of Egyptian Society and temple.
What was a vital part of Egyptian society?
Which god is the god of chaos
The Egyptian God Seth is also known as the god of chaos.
The dancers themselves were often groups, but only of one gender at a time.
Why only one gender danced together.
Nefertiti was the wife and queen of Ramses II.
What was she the queen of?
The word hieroglyph means “god's words”.
what does the word hieroglyph mean?
The people did not gather to worship in the temple.
What did they not gather to do?
Ra was a powerful deity and a central god of the pantheon.
What type of god is Ra.
ancient Egypt used some animals with gods and goddesses, using them for sacrificial purposes.
What did they use animals for?
Queen Ankhesenamun was the chief wife of King Tutankhamun.
Who was her husband?
After the Greeks conquered Egypt, knowledge of hieroglyphics began fading.
The knowledge of what started fading as the Greeks took over?
Temples possessed tremendous social and political power.
what did temples possessed?
Hathor was worshiped by everyone from the pharoah to commoners.
Her worshiped her?
Ancient Egyptian fashion consisted of clothes adorned with a variety of colors and precious gems and jewels.
What did Egyptian clothes consist of?
When the king died, the throne was inherited by his son, Thutmose II.
who was the throne inherited to?
Hieroglyphs originated in Egypt around 3200 B.C.
What originated around 3200 B.C.?
Temples also owned farmland, which provided them with food and goods.
what did temples own?
She was the Egyptian goddess of marriage, motherhood, magic and medicine.
Who was Isis?
Today, scholars realize how useful studying mummies is.
What did scholars realize was useful?
Queen Twosret was married to Seti II.
Who was she married to?
Hieroglyphs were also used to write sacred books, like the Book of the Dead.
What was the name of the sacred book?
Pharaohs often gifted a temple with more land or with other goods.
What did Pharaohs gift temples with?