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In the ancient Egyptian times there were 3 different periods, they are: Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom

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How do you know when the artifact was made??? There were different eras in ancient Egypt and different tings happened in those times, like the 10 plagues,  the time of the Hebrew slaves and Moses. So when these different things happened there were different tings that people drew and did. E.g.: when the Egyptians went […]

Ancient Egyptian Pottery. The ancient Egyptians enjoyed to have pottery around them. They loved to make them during the day what they needed something to do. The loved to carve special meanings and pictures as decorations on the pottery vases and other decorations. Some of the object the ancient Egyptians used to make in that time were: plates […]

The Egyptians always loved to look nice in front of people and they used a lot of make up to do that. Some of the makeup that they used was called Mesdemet, which was a a dark gray dust. It was found around Aswan and on the Red Sea Coast. It was also among the […]

Egyptian Limestone Cat Statue This limestone  is among 600 cat statues from a temple dedicated to the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet. The ancient temple was recently discovered under the streets of  Alexandria, Egypt. Egyptian archaeologists who found the temple say it was built by Queen Berenike II, who ruled Egypt from 246 to 221 B.C. […]

Playing piece Today, in the modern days we like to play board games like monopoly or connect four. Well, Egyptians also liked to amuse themselves during the day by playing a board game called ‘Senet’. This is a playing piece from the game. It’s about 3cm high, and it is white. The Egyptians used sticks […]

Make up pot The ancient Egyptians loved to dress up and use jewelry and a lot of makeup. The Egyptians invented a makeup holder to hold every piece of makeup the needed. Both men and   women used special powders and pastes to cover their skin to make themselves look better. The make-up was not only worn […]

The ancient Egyptians loved to wear jewelry, like necklaces, rings and charms. On of their favorites were wearing necklaces. They wear them with charms on them, they liked wearing blur beads because it represents loyalty and being royal. The necklaces were normally made out of pottery beads called ‘faience’. these charms were made out of […]

Amulet An amulet could also be called a lucky charm. They were often made to represent one of the many different gods that the Egyptians believed in. This amulet  represents ‘Horus’ who was one of the most powerful gods that they believed in. He had a man’s body and a hawk’s head. A lot of amulets […]