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Research:

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/explore/main.html

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/gods/explore/main.html

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/egyptmyth/tp/071507egyptiandeities.htm

http://egypt.mrdonn.org/gods.html

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78eg5fkBda4

Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses Family Tree

The unfinished obelisk, the largest known ancient obelisk, located in the northern region of the stone quarries of ancient Egypt in Aswan (Assuan), Egypt.

By Ad Meskens (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

From http://mummies2pyramids.info/daily-life/stone-quarrying.htm :

Definition: A quarry, or ‘stone pit’ is a surface excavation for extracting stone. The ancient Egyptian Quarries were used for extracting building materials required for their extensive building projects.

More quarry information:

http://ancientegypt.me/quarrying-in-ancient-egypt/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_quarries_of_ancient_Egypt

Modern American Quarry:

“Old South Shaft Ore Quarry, Face of Tough-nut Mine, part of Town of Tombstone, Arizona. Dragoon Mountains, with Cochise Stronghold in background,” mammoth plate, by the American photographer Carleton E. Watkins. Courtesy of the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Carleton Watkins [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

By Ricardo Liberato [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

Here is an interactive PBS website to let you explore the pyramids of Egypt:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/

More pyramid info!

http://www.history.com/topics/the-egyptian-pyramids

http://egypt.mrdonn.org/pyramids.html

National Geographic Channel Video about how the Great Pyramid might have been built:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLxJY91Cv0o&feature=related

By Ricardo Liberato [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Project

(Homework)

1.    The bottom square of your pyramid must be 10 inches on each side.

2.    The side triangles must be 10”x10”x10” (equilateral triangle).

3.    Answer this math question:  What is the height of your pyramid?

4.    The base of your pyramid (what your pyramid is placed on) must be 12”x12”.

5.    This is your science question:  What weather events caused the ancient pyramids to look like they do today?

6.    This is your technology question:  How did the ancient Egyptians move huge blocks to the top of the pyramid?

7.    Your pyramid may be constructed of any materials.  (It is not necessary to spend any money, but you may choose to do so.)

8.    9.  10.  Write a paragraph answering these three questions.

     1.  Who helped you build this homework project?  What did they do?  How did you help each other?  What materials did you use?

     2.  What was difficult about this project?  What was easy?  What was fun?

      3.  Did you choose to make you pyramid in the form of Ancient Egyptian completion or how they look today?  Why? 

Options

•   Place your pyramid in any space on the 12”x12” base in case you wish to add landscaping.

•   Create an interior of the pyramid with hieroglyphics.  (5pts.)

•  Write three sentences describing mummification.  (5 pts.)

•   Place a mummy in the pyramid.  (5 pts.)

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http://egypt.mrdonn.org/twolands.html

http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~bgresham/bgx3/menespg.htm

http://www.king-tut.org.uk/egyptian-pharaohs/menes.htm

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUa1tZ2TklY&feature=related

image courtesy of http://ancientvine.com/

Click on the link below to watch a Prezi presentation with lost of information

about Ancient Egyptian water technology:

http://prezi.com/pf3c9b1wnd0o/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy