Egypt

Today in class we continued to talk about Egypt.
The Nile flows from South to North.
The Writing of the Word of God
The earliest Egyptian writing formed c. 3100 B.C. and were small pictures known as hieroglyphs.
They represented religious words, or parts of words, and most commonly adorned temples.
Hieratic script was a shorthand developed by scribes and priests.
Hieratic script was usually written in ink on papyrus, which was made from mashed Nile reeds.
Papyrus, the precursor to paper, was stored in scrolls and these scrolls, were the books of ancient Egypt.
Calendars and Sailboats
Egyptian astronomers, created a calendar with 365 days to make better sense of the seasonal cycles.
Egyptian doctors wrote extensively on health issues and created potions and cures for a number of common ailments because of their excellent knowledge of the human anatomy.
Wooden sailboats were constructed to increase transport ability on the Nile.
Pyramids and Temples
Pyramids were massive stone tombs, originally covered in marble but the marble was later stripped off during the Muslim conquest.
The temple of Amon at Karnak is the largest religious building in the world, also made out of huge blocks of stone.
The Rhythm of Egypt's History
Egypt's history is one of long period of unbroken stability punctuated with occasionally periods of turmoil and disruption.