1. Ancient Egypt: Culture
and Religion

2.  Hieroglyphic
writing: consisted
of symbols and
drawings.
 The Egyptians
used
algebra, geometry
and astronomy to
control floods.

3. The most important buildings were temples and
tombs.

4. Egyptian Art
 Sculptures: were decorations on temple walls or
figures representing gods, pharaoh, nobles or
clerks
 Paintings: were on the interior of tombs and
temples. The paintings were of everyday life or
religious themes.

5.  Egyptians were polytheistic: they believed in
various gods
 Some of the gods were half human, half animal

6.  Egyptians believed in life after death.
 Therefore, they practiced mummification: the
process of making human corpses into mummies

7. Mummification:
 The _______ was extracted through the nose.
 The mummified corpse was placed in the _______.
 The organs of the dead were kept in __________.