Discover Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt is in the north-east of Africa and an old civilization.

The River Nile

Ancient Egypt would not exist without the River Nile because it provides food, water, transportation and excellent food for farming. The River Nile is 6,670 km long. The Egyptians lived and farmed along the river and used the mud for houses. Papyrus grew along the river that was used to make paper and boats.

Housing

The Egyptians used mud bricks and papyrus reeds for their houses. They built the houses with two floors, the bottom floor was used for storing crops and the top floor was where they lived. The poor only had one layer and the wealthy had two-three layers, but the rich had stone houses.

Clothing

The Egyptians wore light wear clothing to keep cool that which was made out of linen, but most kids were naked up to the age of six years old.

Men wore a loincloth or a short bottom kilt. Women wore a straight dress. They also both wore green or blue eye shadow and black eyeliner also jewellery to honour the gods.

Hieroglyphs

Ancient Egyptians used pictures to show different objects, actions, sounds and ideas. There are 700 and more hieroglyphs. The name hieros (that means holy) and glyph (that means writing) and that makes holy writing. The paper that the Egyptians write on is made from papyrus reeds in a process when it gets flattened, dried, and stuck together to make pages. Hieroglyphs are also carved on stone walls in tombs and used in scribe schools.

Ancient Egypt was an amazing kingdom and had very smart people in it.