Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Upper and Lower Egypt

  • Lower Egypt is where the mouth of the Nile start, upper is where it thins out.
  • Pyramids were covered in limestone because it reflected the suns and the Pharaohs buried inside them where the sun god reincarnated
  • in an Egyptian culture from the old kingdom there is never a space between the legs
  • there was a man, unsure if he was real or unreal, that brought upper Egypt and lower Egypt together by force.
  • who built the pyramids?
  • not the slaves! paid workers built the pyramids
  • pyramids where called mortuary cities
  • slaves maintained the mortuary cities by working in Egypt.
  • the Egyptians believed that when you were buried your KA, or energy of the person, would hang around the pyramid until called to judgement
  • judgement would be when the dead person meets with the god, the person's heart is measured against a feather. if they are equal then they can go to the after life.

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