-Sara Hudyn
I did some digging to find out a little bit more about the missing nose on the great sphinx and although there are some great conspiracy ideas about what happened no one is completely sure, like we talked about in class. However, this website did give alot of detailed information about the sphinx that I thought would be cool to share.
Stumbled upon this while looking up some facts for the group project, some of them are a little random but they are fun too look at and read about and they do a good job at decribing the history about the facts. http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/11-things-you-may-not-know-about-ancient-egypt
-Sara Hudyn
Old Kingdom & First Intermediate Period
– Chris Mullen
Little known fact: Imhotep’s status as physician, high priest, official scribe, vizier, and architect extraordinaire gave him the most influence in the royal court after the pharaoh himself, (not so bad for a guy who also has the title of Maker of Vases in Chief). Of course “Director of the Project to Build King Djoser’s Step Pyramid” would look good on anyone’s resume!
Learn more interesting facts about the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period by clicking through the link!
Never knew about the Valley of the Kings before, but this website helped introduce me to it.
Rebecca
This is the link I actually used for my paragraph in the group essay, but found it very interesting and wanted to share!
Rebecca
http://www.landofpyramids.org/egyptian-goddesses.htm
This was a great website that showed all the differend Goddesses.
Marisol
http://www.jstor.org/stable/543809
The Use of Natron in Mummification in Ancient Egypt
Port in ancient Egypt is world’s oldest
– Chris Mullen
Archaeologists have recently uncovered what appears to be the world’s first harbor, in use during Pharaoh Khufu’s reign (4th Dynasty, during the Old Kingdom Period). This discovery has given us new insight of how early trade was facilitated along the Red Sea, as well as accounts of ancient Egyptian daily life on well-preserved papyrus documents.
http://www.ancient-egypt.org/index.html
This website has a cool time like and all about the different time periods.
Marisol
“The pyramid’s smooth, angled sides symbolized the rays of the sun and were designed to help the king’s soul ascend to heaven and join the gods, particularly the sun god Ra.”
Was really intrigued about the Pyramids since class on Wednesday. Found this article from the History channel and it has a lot of really cool information. It contains videos, photos, and the history behind various famous pyramids. This page is a part of the whole Ancient Egypt site, so there are also more related, great articles!
-Rebecca Voyce
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