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- Egyptian women, in general, enjoyed more rights than their Greek or Roman counterparts .
- They could own property and run businesses .
- For instance, Cleopatra (69-30 BCE) was trained from childhood to rule , and became queen at the age of eighteen .
Worth remembering
During mummification every organ inside the body was removed except the heart . The body was then dried, oiled, wrapped in cloth and buried with rituals.
Still true today
The Egyptian year of 365 days is the length of our year too - they were only about a quarter of a day out.
1. What does
kemet
mean?
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The black - after the black river valley soil
2. What is a mastaba?
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The rectangular structure placed over a pharaoh's burial chamber
3. Who deciphered the Egyptian script, and in which year?
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Jean-Francois Champollion, in 1822
| When | What happened |
|---|---|
| 5500 BCE | Neolithic |
| 4000 BCE | Chalcolithic |
| 3100 BCE | Bronze Age begins in Egypt |
| Around 3000 BCE | City-states emerge ; farmers begin digging ditches to divert the Nile |
| 2686 - 2181 BCE | Old Kingdom |
| 2030 - 1650 BCE | Middle Kingdom |
| 2000 BCE | Libraries store papyrus scrolls in labelled jars |
| 1570 - 1069 BCE | New Kingdom |
| 5th century BCE | Herodotus visits and writes about Egypt |
| 69 - 30 BCE | Cleopatra |
| 1799 CE | Pierre Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone |
| 1822 CE | Champollion deciphers the Egyptian script |
