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**WORRYING does not take away tomorrow's TROUBLES;** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**it takes away today's PEACE.**

<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">** STOP worrying and let's start with INTRODUCTION...........'Ancient Egypt'. **

<span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: center;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Please Read............. **  <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Egypt Mummies - Obsessed with the afterlife, and the avoidance of death, the ancient Egyptians are most often known for their [|mummies].**  ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Ancient Egypt is one of the most fascinating of the ancient civilizations. Even today, the manner in which modern Egypt has melded with the ancient world is positively astounding. One cannot help but notice that the pull of the ancient world is still very much a part of modern cities such as Cairo and Alexandria.** ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** The Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs - Life of the [|ancient Egyptian pharaohs] was filled with power, glory, murder, deceit and mystery. Slip into the world of ancient Egypt where a woman dressed as a man to rule Egypt as pharaoh, then mysteriously disappeared; another pharaoh would stop at almost nothing to institute a monotheistic religion and a boy king was cut down in the prime of life. [|King Tut]' 'Boy King' who died such a mysterious death at such a ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** young age. **  <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** . **  <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** The Queens of Egypt - The many [|queens of Egypt] have long been regarded as the most beautiful, seductive women ever to grace a throne. While they obviously knew how to make the most of their appearances, there was also much more to the personalities and lives of these royal ladies than mere looks alone. **  <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** [|Queen Cleopatra]'s beauty, ability to seduce powerful men and love affairs is truly the stuff of legends. Cleopatra's the amazing 'last pharaoh.' **  <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** Egyptian Hieroglyphics - Egypt was one of the first, if not the first, civilization to develop a system of writing. Comprised of thousands of symbols, the [|Egyptian hieroglyphics] are a study in art as well as linguistics. **  **<span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses - The world of ancient Egypt was ruled by more than mere pharaohs, even they had to answer to someone. The [|Egyptian Gods and Goddesses] ruled the lives of the Egyptians with an iron fist. When the gods of Egypt weren't busy with reigning, they were engaged in love affairs, intrigues and murder. ** **<span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">The Egyptian Pyramids - The construction of the [|Egyptian pyramids] have dumbfounded the world for generations, if not centuries. It seems incongruous that anyone, especially an ancient civilization, could have successfully managed such massive construction projects such as the pyramids of Egypt. Yet, even thousands of years later, the pyramids rise above the sand filled deserts of Egypt as a testament to their builders. ** **<span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">Questions..try answering them.... ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Daily Life in Ancient Egypt -**  * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**How did the people live in ancient Egypt?**
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**What did [|ancient egypt houses] and [|temples] look like?**
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**What kind of [|food] did the Egyptians eat?**
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**How did [|ancient Egypt fashion] look?**
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**What kind of [|music] did the ancient Egyptian population play and did they [|dance] to it?**
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**What kind of [|games] did they play and which [|sports] did they like?**
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Are there any [|ancient Egyptian inventions] that are still useful today?**
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**What role did the [|Nile] play in the world of the ancient Egyptians?**
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**How was religion experienced in ancient Egypt?**
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**What about art and culture?**
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**What about art and culture?**



<span style="display: block; font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**Ancient Egyptian Monuments** <span style="display: block; font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**The Pyramids of Giza are the oldest and only remaining monuments of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. These massive structures were created as tombs for the rulers of the Old Kingdom (see the [|Timeline]). Even after more than four thousand years of exposure and weathering, the Pyramids of Giza stand as awe-inspiring monuments to the genius and creativity of a long-dead culture.** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**This pyramid was used, like its descendants, as a tomb for the dead king.** = = ||
 * ~  || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Egyptologists currently believe that the design for the Egyptian Pyramid was inspired by the fact that the sand dunes in the desert naturally form a pyramidal shape, which is very stable. The Pyramids themselves developed out of designs of previous tombs. Early Egyptian tombs were bench-shaped mounds called mastabas. About 2780 B.C., King Zoser's architect, Imhotep, designed the first pyramid by layering six mastabas of decreasing size one on top of the other. Thus, the Step Pyramid was born.**  [[image:http://library.thinkquest.org/3011/media/egy003.gif align="center" caption="EGYPT"]]

angle of incline over 51 degrees, but was changed half-way to about 43 degrees. This is known as the "Bent Pyramid." ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**During the reign of Snefru (c. 2680-2560 B.C.), the step pyramid became a smooth-sided pyramid. Snefru had his step pyramid at Medum filled in to form straight sides, then covered the structure with limestone (all the pyramids once had limestone casings, but during the occupation of Egypt by the Arabs, much of those coverings were removed to build cities such as Cairo). Later, another transition was made to add stability. At Bahshur, a smooth-sided pyramid was started with sides at an** [[image:http://library.thinkquest.org/3011/media/egy004.gif align="center" caption="EGYPT"]]

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**over 15 tons.** ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**The Great Pyramid at Giza, built by Khufu (Cheops in Greek), is by far the best-known and most impressive of all the Egyptian Pyramids. Its original height was an astounding 481 feet, as high as a 40 story skyscraper and its base covers about 13 acres of land. The Pyramid contains approximately 2,300,000 limestone blocks, the average weight of each about 2.5 tons, the heaviest weighing**


 * ~  ||~ <span style="display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">The Great Pyramid stands with two other pyramids. One for Khufu's son, Khafre (Chephren), and another for his successor, Menkaure (Mycerinus).  ||

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**the desert during the time of Khafre.** ||
 * || <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**The Great Sphinx also stands on the Giza plateau. This immense sculpture, with the body of a lion and the head of a man, acts as the guardian of the tombs of the great kings according to the Ancient Egyptians. It was probably sculpted out of an unwanted mound of limestone in** [[image:http://library.thinkquest.org/3011/media/egy007.jpg align="center" caption="EGYPT"]]

Ancient Egyptian Timeline
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**While the Pyramids are the most recognizable of Egyptian monuments, many other impressive structures were built by the ancients. Temples were constructed to pay tribute to the gods and the [|Pharaoh], who was considered a man-god himself. Shown to the right is the impressive Temple of Ramses II, considered to be the most powerful Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.** ||



<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**Ancient Egyptian art refers to the style of painting, sculpture, crafts and arc hitecture developed by the civilization in the lower Nile Valley from 5000 BC to 300 AD. [|Ancient Egyptian] art was expressed in paintings and sculptures, and was both highly stylized and [|symbolic]. Much of the surviving art comes from tombs and monuments and thus there is an emphasis on life after death and the preservation of knowledge of the past.**