Nov. 21, 2005 - Another Essay on Ancient Egypt
By Anna Davis
The ancient Egyptians created a civilization that lasted for over 3,000 years, and is one of the most famous civilizations in the world. It has been calculated that during this period more than half a billion people existed on Egypt's soil. The Egyptians developed a remarkable knowledge of astronomy, engineering, mathematics, and medicine and had an organized taxations and a legal system with a police force and courts.
Tutankhumun and Rameses the Great were just two of the 170 or more of the known pharaohs of Egypt. Pepi the Second was the longest reigning king in recorded history. He ruled Egypt for 94 years and lived to the age of 97, which was very long because most Egyptians lived for about 30 years.
Women had more legal rights than those in a lot of countries today. They could own land and wore fine clothing and used a wide range of cosmetics and beauty products.
We owe our calendar of 365 days to the Egyptians. They were among the first to divide the day and night into 24 hours and to use clocks. The ancient Egyptians were truly amazing.
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Nov. 21, 2005 - An Essay on King Tut
By Anna Davis
King Tut became pharaoh at the age of nine and died around the age of 19. His father Akhenaton was hated because he and his wife Nefertiti banished all the traditional Egyptian gods and only allowed the sun god, Aten, to be worshipped. When King Tut came to the throne, the priests of the traditional Egyptian gods had King Tut restore the worship of all the old gods. King Tut's birth name was Tutamkhaten meaning 'the living essence of the Aten,' but when he became king, the priests made him change his name to Tutankhamun which means 'the living essence of Amun' -- a symbol of the many gods.
King Tut died at the early age of 19. Damage to his skull led scientists to believe that he was murdered by his head counsellor Ay who seized power after his death and married king Tut's wife Ankhsenpaaten. But later on it was proved that the damage to the skull was really resin from the embalming process, and they proved that what really killed king Tut was a badly broken and infected knee.
The reason it took so long to find his tomb was because the later kings hated him so much, because of his father, that they erased all traces of his name in the list of kings. An archaeologist named Howard Carter discovered the tomb on the morning of November 4th in the year of 1922. The search for the tomb was financed by Lord Carnarvon who died soon after the opening of the tomb.
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Aug. 23, 2005 -
Earlier in August they had to have the shuttle land here because bad weather in Florida. We got up early in the morning to go see it land. My dad got some great photos from NASA. Anna
