Today in class we finished up our power points on Egypt. We started presenting today.

•An estimate of 20,000 to 30,000 workers built the pyramids

•There is evidence of laborers surviving crushed or amputated limbs

•The pyramids of Ancient Egypt were built for Kings and Queens

•A Pharaoh is the most powerful person in ancient Egypt.

•Pharaohs own all the land, made laws, collected taxes, and defended Egypt against foreigners.

•If the Pharaoh won a battle, the opponent offers the most valuable goods from their land.

 •It is very important to their beliefs that the human body was preserved.

•They call this process mummification, which was complicated and lengthy up to 70 years

•The Egyptians believed that when they died, they would make a journey to another world where they would lead a new life. They would need all the things they had used while alive, so their families put them in their graves. 

•The body was washed and purified

•Organs were removed, only the heart was left

•The body was filled with stuffing

•They body was dried by covering it with a substance called natron.

•After 40-50 days the stuffing was removed and replaced with linen or sawdust

•The body was wrapped in strands of linen and covered in a sheet called a shroud

•They body was placed in a stone coffin called a sarcophagus