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![Egyptian Afterlife - The Field of Reeds](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/4786.jpg?v=1720555504)
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Egyptian Afterlife - The Field of Reeds
The ancient Egyptians believed that life on earth was only one part of an eternal journey which ended, not in death, but in everlasting joy. When one's body failed, the soul did not die with it but continued on toward an afterlife where one...
![Ancient Egyptian Architecture](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5687.jpg?v=1721996463)
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Ancient Egyptian Architecture
Ancient Egyptian architecture is often associated closely with the pyramids of Giza but was actually quite diverse, taking a number of forms in the construction of administrative buildings, temples, tombs, palaces, and the private homes of...
![Egyptian Papyrus](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/6031.jpg?v=1718223194)
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Egyptian Papyrus
Papyrus is a plant (cyperus papyrus) which once grew in abundance, primarily in the wilds of the Egyptian Delta but also elsewhere in the Nile River Valley, but is now quite rare. Papyrus buds opened from a horizontal root growing in shallow...
![Ancient Egyptian Writing](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/4675.jpg?v=1720907523)
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Ancient Egyptian Writing
Ancient Egyptian writing is known as hieroglyphics ('sacred carvings') and developed at some point prior to the Early Dynastic Period (c. 3150 -2613 BCE). According to some scholars, the concept of the written word was first developed in...
![Egyptian Medicine](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/6363.jpg?v=1718223192)
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Egyptian Medicine
Medical practice in ancient Egypt was so advanced that many of their observations, policies, and commonplace procedures would not be surpassed in the west for centuries after the fall of Rome and their practices would inform both Greek and...
![Late Period of Ancient Egypt](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5356.jpg?v=1717770609)
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Late Period of Ancient Egypt
The Late Period of Egypt (525-332 BCE) is the era following the Third Intermediate Period (1069-525) and preceding the brief Hellenistic Period (332-323 BCE) when Egypt was ruled by the Argead officials installed by Alexander the Great prior...
![Ancient Egyptian Religion](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3690.jpg?v=1717770607)
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Ancient Egyptian Religion
Egyptian religion was a combination of beliefs and practices which, in the modern day, would include Egyptian mythology, science, medicine, psychiatry, magic, spiritualism, herbology, as well as the modern understanding of 'religion' as belief...
![Egyptian Faience](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/398.jpg?v=1714419303)
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Egyptian Faience
Egyptian faience is a glassy substance manufactured expertly by the ancient Egyptians. The process was first developed in Mesopotamia, first at Ur and later at Babylon, with significant results but faience production reached its height of...
![A Brief History of Egyptian Art](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/2508.jpg?v=1721390712)
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A Brief History of Egyptian Art
Art is an essential aspect of any civilization. Once the basic human needs have been taken care of such as food, shelter, some form of community law, and a religious belief, cultures begin producing artwork, and often all of these developments...
![Interrelations of Kerma and Pharaonic Egypt](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/1111.jpg?v=1699640886)
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Interrelations of Kerma and Pharaonic Egypt
The vacillating nature of Ancient Egypt's associations with the Kingdom of Kerma may be described as one of expansion and contraction; a virtual tug-of-war between rival cultures. Structural changes in Egypt's administration led to alternating...