This week I WONDER about Ancient Egypt, this is what I wonder...
Comment about one thing you wonder about Ancient Egypt.
Your task: Find an answer to your wonder or question before the end of the day Friday. If your wonder is very complicated, try to find a new part of the answer each week. To type your answer, hit reply under your own comment (wonder).
It's time to get CURIOUS!!
Comment about one thing you wonder about Ancient Egypt.
Your task: Find an answer to your wonder or question before the end of the day Friday. If your wonder is very complicated, try to find a new part of the answer each week. To type your answer, hit reply under your own comment (wonder).
It's time to get CURIOUS!!
I wonder who the first king to be buried in the Valley of the Kings was.
ReplyDeleteTuthmosis I was the first Pharaoh to be buried in the Valley of the Kings.
DeleteI wonder what the most common food in Ancient Egypt was.
ReplyDelete-Celine
It was grain. Well, grain was used to make bread and wine. I suppose bread and wine were the most pupular food.
Deleteancients egypt common food is the common food
DeleteWhen and why did the Ancient Egyptian civilization end?
ReplyDelete-Cookie monster
The ancient Egyptian civilization ended when Cleopatra, the first female pharaoh died and the Roman empire took over Egypt. This happened around 30 B.C.
Delete-C.M
I wonder what they would teach in school to the boys...
ReplyDelete-Elaine (- -;)
The boys would learn to write hieroglyphics and copy important information from scrolls. They were also made to memorize information and also recite it.
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I wonder what color the pyramids were when they were first built
ReplyDeleteR.S
Reflective light brown and white because of highly polished limestone
DeleteHow tall is the tallest pyramid in Egypt and what is the hottest temperature inside the pyramids?
ReplyDelete- Subway
Does the climate change inside the pyramids in Egypt? Why does it change and if it does not change, why do scientists think it's not changing. - Subway
DeleteNo, the climate inside the pyramid in Egypt do not change. Scientists think that the climate in the pyramids do not change because it is close to the Nile river and it could not adapt to climate change. Here is the website I used to find out what the answer is. websitewww.presstv.ir/detail/257125.html
Delete- Subway
How much gold do the Egyptians use?
ReplyDeleteDeli Man
Who is Deli Man?
DeleteWhat if you have the same question/wonder with someone else?
DeleteHa
DeleteClever Title Mrs.Pogue........
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I wonder how the Egyptians knew about astronomy and other logical arts.
ReplyDelete<3 Carmen-I decided that my blog name is now Penguinpuff
<3 Penguinpuff
Egyptians learned Astronomy by looking up at the night sky.
DeleteEgyptians learned about Geometry by probably drawing shapes in the dirt with a stick.
Carmen
I wonder if any of the Pharos ever invented anything?
ReplyDeleteA.M.
Only one pharaoh (Imphotep) invented something, and that something is.... the pyramid!
DeleteA.M.
I think i am going to change my name to Lime!XD
I wonder if the people in the ancient egypt eat more than me?
ReplyDelete( fun question )
By: the unknowner ( look up TOP )
even though wealthy families have enough money to buy food their stomach cant fit more food than me. LOL
Deletein ancient egpyt are people with money the people get to rule like china.
ReplyDeletethe unknowner
Many people pay money in private to do business or what ever. but also people can use money to tell the gov to stop or kill some one this is possible.
Deletein school in epypt do they have family life
ReplyDeleteT.L
their are some sort of family life but different from ours.
Deletein egypt is having 2 wifes allowed for nomal people not king.
ReplyDeleteT.L
Great wonders so far...but I want you to think even BIGGER!! Think of questions that cannot be answered in one word, or that has a single fact as an answer. Think of a question that makes you ask MORE QUESTIONS!!
ReplyDeleteI wonder why the Ancient Egyptians believe in Gods, Goddesses, and afterlife? What made them believe?
ReplyDelete-Catherine
Ancient Egyptians believed in gods and goddesses when they had to find a way to figure out what caused the natural disasters, like the Nile River floods and droughts (but in their case, the flood wasn’t a disaster, but a blessing). Ancient Egyptians believed in the gods and goddesses because they needed a structure or structured to guide themself and their lives. Religion helped people explain how the world was created. It gave them hope for a divine assistance in time of peril, as well as hope for a better life after death. They believed that some gods and goddesses took part in creation, brought the flood every year, offered protection, take care of people after they died, etc.
DeleteThere were 3 specific reasons why the Ancient Egyptians believed in an afterlife. First, living in the desert climate meant that living things did not decay, but preserved their form when dried by the hot desert wind; leading to a belief that at some point these living things could return to life.
The next 2 reasons have to do with humankind’s tendency to believe in an afterlife. People perceive by common-sense observations that matter can’t be created or destroyed; it has to “go” somewhere. If this happens to matter, why wouldn’t happen to human consciousness? After the body dies, the human consciousness (also known as the ‘soul’ or ‘mind’) must “go” somewhere, e.g., into the afterlife.
The third reason is that complete and total death is impossible for the human mind to imagine, especially since no one has returned from death and described what it is like.
Wow very interesting, well done Catherine!
DeleteDo the pyramid's dimensions have a hidden mathematical code and numbers relating to Earth, physics, and cosmos?
ReplyDeleteThere are several mathematical constants within the dimensions of the pyramids that include:
Delete-PI
-PHI
-The speed of light
The constants within the great pyramid are found in different ways such as:
-2 times the side length of the pyramid and dividing by the height will give PI (with an error of less than 0.4%!!)
-The ratio between the surface area of the sides to the base area is PHI, the golden ratio (again with a staggeringly low error of 0.2%!)
-The latitude of the Grand Gallery within the pyramid is 29.9792458 degrees North, which uses the same numbers as the speed of light!
In my opinion, this is WAY too accurate to be accidental. Another question that I considered while researching:
How in the world did the Ancient Egyptians know about these constants?!
This is a very intriguing research topic Binary! I like your last question too, how DID they know about these constants?! Now think...how could you present this research? ANd how can you take it even further?
DeleteSome other relationships:
Delete-The ratio of the diagonal of the pyramid's base to it's height is 9:10
-The great pyramid is aligned perfectly with true north, with an error of only 3/60 degrees.
-The height of the pyramid when multiplied by 10^9, equals the average distance between the Earth and the Sun.
-The weight of the pyramid is estimated at 5,955,000 tons. Multiplied by 10^8 equals the Earth's mass.
-The average height of land above sea level is 5449 inches, which is also the height of the great pyramid.
-The height of the Great pyramid minus the height of the missing capstone equals 1 millionth the time it takes light to travel the average distance between the Earth and Sun.
Getting better!! :))
ReplyDeleteI wonder in how did the slaves build the Pyramid without the high-technology?
ReplyDelete- Michael
I wonder who created the Hieroglyphic language. Why and how...
ReplyDeleteBy: Marco (the really handsome guy in your class)
how and why did mummification start?
ReplyDelete-Friedn Chicken
I wonder how the Ancient Egyptians got the idea of using hieroglyphs? Why did they use it and how did we people discover what each picture/drawing means or sounds like?
ReplyDelete-Kerrie
The Ancient Egyptians got the idea of using hieroglyphs when the people there decided that it was important to record and communicate about religion and government with a language that only some people could understand. Hieroglyphic first started in 3,100 BC when they started "picture-writing" which is using signs and pictures to represent letters and words. Eventually, it was expanded to use individual signs as sounds. They used things that they had in Ancient Egypt for signs and symbols. There were 2 types of hieroglyphs: pictograms and phonograms. Pictograms were pictures that represented someone or something (can also be full words). Phonograms were signs that represented 1 to 3 individual letters or consonant sounds.
DeleteThe Ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphs because if they used it to record information, they would be able to preserve the belief, history and ideas of Ancient Egypt in temples, tomb walls and papyrus scrolls. They also used hieroglyphs to communicate and for decoration on many things. Not everyone gets to learn hieroglyphs because special training was required. Scribes, state officials, priests or viziers used hieroglyphs for writing to do their jobs. Hieroglyphs were used to communicate and for special things.
The first person to understand a bit of hieroglyphic was Jean-François Champollion. He deciphered hieroglyphs in 1822. The French were digging up a place in Egypt to build a fort when they discovered the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone was written in 3 types of scripts: Demotic, Greek and Hieroglyphic. He understood Greek and Coptic and therefore it allowed him to crack some of the codes on the Rosetta Stone. By using Greek and Coptic, he understood some of the hieroglyphics. Then slowly, he made educated guesses about the other hieroglyphic signs. There are about 750 signs and it took many people centuries to translate it. Eventually, people used Champollion's discoveries and even today, we continue to discover new and interesting things about Ancient Egyptian people through hieroglyphic.
-Kerrie
DeleteThe Ancient Egyptian people got the idea of using hieroglyphs when they first started "picture-writing," using signs and symbols to represent letters or words. The signs and symbols they used were usually familiar objects from Ancient Egypt. They started using hieroglyphs at about 3100 BC. Eventually, they started to expand hieroglyphics and so there are 2 types of hieroglyphs. The first type is pictograms. Pictograms were pictures that represented someone or something (can also be full words). The second type is phonograms. Phonograms were signs that represented 1 to 3 consonant sounds (or individual letters). It usually required pictograms and phonograms to communicate because Ancient Egyptian writing don't have vowels.
They used hieroglyphs because the Ancient Egyptian people believed that it was important to record and communicate about religion and government in a language only some people understood. So they invented scripts to record information. One of the most famous scripts is hieroglyphic. They were able to preserve the belief, history and ideas of Ancient Egypt in temples, tomb walls and on papyrus rolls by using hieroglyphs. People also used hieroglyphs to decorate tombs and scribes, state officials, priests, or viziers use hieroglyphs to do their jobs.
Jean-François Champollion was the first person to decipher hieroglyphs in 1822. The French were digging up a place near Rosetta (a place in Egypt) to build a fort when they discovered the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone had 3 types of scripts: Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphic. Champollion was able to crack some of the hieroglyphs because he was able to read Greek and Coptic. By knowing 2 scripts (Greek and Demotic), he could decode some of the words and understand bits of the Rosetta Stone. Then he began to make educated guesses about the other hieroglyphic signs. Even today, we continue to discover more about the Ancient Egyptians through hieroglyphs and solve mysteries.
-Kerrie
I wonder if the Egyptians ever invented or created anything that made a difference to Earth.
ReplyDeleteIf yes, then how did they invent it and what did they invent and How did it make a difference?
-Nicole
The system of wells, ditches, and water lifting devices allowed the farmers of the time to grow crops on land further away from water sources. This allowed a much larger population to congregate in one area than ever before. The roads and markets allowed for a wider distribution of these foods.
DeleteBecause more people could live in a smaller area - a city by definition - more skills, and more diverse skills could be supported. This allowed merchants, artists, priests, bureacrats, politicians, craftsmen, architects and technicians to exist because they did not have to spend all of their time growing food, or hunting for it. They could simply buy it, or trade for it.
The roads allowed not only the transportation of food and manufactured goods. They facilitated the travel of armies to defend the current borders, and also to travel to conquer new territory.
The same developments in irrigation/roads/infra-structure had been made eariler in Sumeria/Babylon, but never to the extent that Egypt accomplished.
This dense concentration of people allowed for greater exchange of ideas. Some of the first universities were founded in Egypt. The library at Alexandria was the worlds largest repository of written knowlege for centuries.
Also the following:
Papyrus
Ink
Math
Calendar
Medicine
Cotton
Shadoof
Water Clock
Dome Oven
Architecture
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http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_contributions_made_to_world_civilization_by_ancient_Egypt
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-Nicole
Excellent research Nicole, it's amazing how many of the ancient Egyptian creations are still used today!
DeleteWhy aren't women and girls allowd to be pharoahs? Wut does it take to be a pharaoh?
ReplyDeleteHannah
Answer: The Pharaoh has many wives but only his main wife the queen can give birth to the future pharaoh. As long as you are the queen's first son you will always have top priority to become the next pharaoh, but supposedly you die the next oldest son will be the one to inherit the throne and so on. If something unfortunate happens like every son of the queen dies, then the oldest daughter will take the throne. So unless something horrible happens to all of the children of the queen, the second wife's children will not inherit the throne.
DeleteHannah
Great research Hannah!
DeleteWho thought of the mummifying in Ancient times?
ReplyDeleteWhy did the Egyptians believe in this? What makes them believe this?
T.C.
I wonder how and why the Egyptians mummified their dead?
ReplyDelete-J.W
Ancient Egyptians believed that when someone died the soul would leave the body. The soul would return to the body after it was buried. The soul when it returns it has to recognize the body. So the body was buried with their treasures and the things buried with then would come be to life to protect them in the afterlife. Therefore it was very important to preserve a body. The soul had to find and recognize the body to be immortal. The Egyptians believed that the body had to be intact to serve as a host for the soul.
DeleteHow to mummify a person:
1 First they would put them on a table and the embalmers, would clean the body.
2 Then the Embalmers would take out all the internal organs.
3 after the organs were taken out they would be put in canopic jars
4 After everything was taken out they would place the corpse on an embalming bed.
5 then the body would be sprinkled with natron to dry the body of its fluids.
6 the corpse would be placed on an embalming bed to dry the body
7
Then the embalmers would wrap the body in linen bandages that also came with jewels and charms to protect the person for the afterlife.
j.w
What was the most common punishment in ancient egypt? And does the any of the punishment relate to their religion in anyway?
ReplyDelete-C. the person who sits behind the "really handsome guy in your class"
(is it a big enough question...?)
Hmm yes interesting...so perhaps your research could be more based on religion, and possible different religions and their beliefs?
DeleteThe most common punishment was not exactly specified.
DeleteArchaeologists believe that the Ancient Egyptian law is based on the common sense view of right or wrong, following the codes based on Ma'at(The Goddess of Truth, Order, Balance, and Justice of the Universe).
This concept allowed that everyone, with the exception of slaves, should be viewed as equals under the law, regardless of wealth or social position. However, when punishment was carried out, often the entire family of the guilty suffered as well. When somebody commits a theft, the person would just return the goods and pay twice the value. Simple corporal punishment could involve a hundred strokes of the cane and in more serious cases, 5 bleeding cuts added, or brands as a sign of permanent dishonor.Some crimes were punished with mutilation consisting of cutting off a hand, tongue, nose or ears. Or the Pharoah will decide whether he or she should be exiled to Nubia or the Western Oasis, or sent to to labor in the distant mines, but that was not common.
n extreme cases, capital punishment was inflicted by implement on a stake, burning alive, drowning or decapitation. Because the guilty had violated Ma'at, it was also assumed the individual would suffer failure, poverty, sickness, blindness or deafness, with the final settlement awaiting in the Court of the Dead.
-C perhaps the reply was a little too long...
Excellent answer!
DeleteSince I don't see mine I'll post a new one.
ReplyDeleteHow did the Egyptians survive and thrive so long against neighboring kingdoms and empires and fall to Roman Rule? - Cookie
I wonder when the pharoahs die, do they kill their pets or wait for them to die and then mummify them.
ReplyDelete-eva
they kill their pets and mummify them.
Delete-eva
I wonder why the people built a sphinx when the sphinx can't move to protect the pyramid.
ReplyDelete-Angel
true, true........................
Deletecan't find anything online!
DeleteHow did they build the Pyramids?
ReplyDeleteBy: Michael
Again I do not see it, I'll re-post it again.
ReplyDeleteHow and why did the Ancient Egypt lose to the Romans?
-Cookie
When Ptomely Epiphanes asked for aid against the King of Syria
DeleteEgypt really just became a vassal kingdom or protectorate afterwards.
When civil war broke out between Gaius Julius Caesar and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, two great Roman Generals. Cleopatra VII Philopator won the favor of Caesar, (According to legend she presented herself to Caesar rolled up in a rug). Both of them fell in love and when he was assassinated, Rome sent Marcus Antonius to punish Cleopatra VII Philopator, but he too fell in love. Then Imperator Caesar Divi F. Augustus (Octavian) defeated Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra VII Philopator in the "Naval Battle of Actium" in 31 B.C. Marcus and Cleopatra committed suicide instead of being taken prisoner. Augustus made Egypt a mere province of Rome and as such, it became the richest of the provinces. The reason why is to be honest, Cleopatra's fault, she led Marcus to betray Rome just for his love. Cleopatra was probably a remarkable woman, able to impress two of Rome's finest generals, but not a smart one at that. She led her own people to become a mere province of the great Roman Empire - Cookie
funny...........I see yours. Probably just a malfunction with your computer
DeleteVery interesting answer!
Deletehow much gold did the Egyptians use and how did they get it?
ReplyDeleteDeli Man
Answer:
DeleteThe Ancient Egyptians had access to the richest of all the gold supplies in the Ancient World. The two major sources of Egyptian gold were found in Nubia to the South and in the Eastern desert.
For my second question, Did ancient Egyptians have a army or did they just rely on the cataracts?
ReplyDelete-C.M.
The Egyptians actually had a army and the cataract was just a bonus. (lucky!)
Delete-Cookie monster (the person who sits in front of the 'really handsome guy' in your class)
I wonder when they mummify, why do they leave their heart in their body.
ReplyDeleteAn9
This one you can answer from our Museum visit:)
DeleteThey believed that the heart was the thing that you made all your decisions with.
DeleteAn9
what and why was king tuts tomb so special?
ReplyDeletepizza
why only the pharaohs are mummified? And normal people aren't?
ReplyDeleteAn9