The ancient Egyptians used a form of writing that used pictures instead of letters.

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The ancient Egyptians writing

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They used pictures as "symbols" to represent words. They used pictures of objects, people, and animals.

Egyptians used pictures of..​

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They recorded medicine, history, and religion.

What information did they record?

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• Hieroglyphics- for the scribes and royals

• ​hieratic- for the priests

• Demotic- ​for regular people

The three types of writing

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People called scribes were trained to read and write starting at age 7.

Scribes

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Mummification was the process of making a mummy. There were many different steps in the process.

​mummification​

First, they removed the organs.

1. Remove

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Next, they put the organs in Canopic jars.

2. Canopic Jars

Then they totally covered the body with Natron salt.

3. Natron salt

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Then they filled the body with saw dust.

4. Sawdust

Next, they wrapped the body in linen bandages,

5. Linen

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They put amulets in the bandages to help with the journey into the afterlife.

6. Amulets

​They said a prayer to protect the person in the afterlife.

7. Prayer

Finally, they put the mummy into two sarcophaguses and a coffin.

8. Sarcophagus

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• The pyramids were triangular buildings built as the burial place for the pharaohs.

• Slaves (workers) built the pyramids out of limestone.

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Pyramids

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