Ancient Egypt is a remarkable country full of intelligent people. Read on to know more.
Egyptian Writing
Egyptian writing was called hieroglyphs. In Greek this means holy writing - hiero means holy and glyphs meaning writing. There are at least 700 hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt. Not many people could write in ancient Egypt so scribes were hired.
Mummies
In ancient Egypt people believed that after you died you would journey to the afterlife (a second life after you die). You would appear in a different form so your family would put in all the things you need for the afterlife, for example, food and money.
Clothes
Egypt is a hot country,so people wore light weight clothes to keep themselves cool. Their clothes covered most of their skin and mostly people made their clothes out of plant fibre, such of linen. Young children ran around naked until 6 years of age. Men wore a short kilt and sometimes a type of shirt. Woman wore a straight dress with one or two straps.
Housing
Houses were made from mud bricks and papyrus reeds. Mud bricks are made from mixing mud with straw, putting it in a mould and leaving it in the sun to dry. After a few years the bricks started to crumble though.
Ancient Egypt was a civilized country and it was full of people with great ideas and creative minds.
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