Weather

Ancient Egypt

The Sphinx’s

Nose

“Cairo Slum”

Location

The NileHieroglyph

ics

Egypt

WeatherCan you find out:• What the hottest average temperature in Egypt is?

• What the coolest average temperature in Egypt is?

•What is the average rainfall?

• How this compares to the rest of the world?

• How this compares to the United Kingdom?

• Why Egypt is so hot?

Talk to your partner:

• Do you want to find out anything else?

• What do you think it would be like to live in Egypt in August?

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Ancient EgyptTalk to your partner:• What would you like to find out about your Ancient Egypt topic? You may wish to look at the photographs on this page for ideas. ________________________________________________________

Use the internet to try and find answers to your questions, click on the photographs for some useful web sites if you need them.

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Ancient EgyptCan you correctly

sort this Ancient Egyptian timeline?

Helpful Website

6000 BC 5000 BC 4500 BC 3500 BC 3000 BC 2500 BC 1550 BC 1325 BC 332 BC

Early people settle in

Nile Village.

Many Egyptians

farmed cattle and

grew barley.

Sails used on ships for the first

time.

First hieroglyphic

wall paintings created.

Walled town and

villages built.

Great Sphinx and

Great Pyramid at Giza built.

Royal tombs built at Valley of the Kings.

King Tutankhamen

buried.

Alexander the Great invades.

Are you correct

Ancient EgyptDid you get them right?

The Sphinx’s NoseThere are lots of rumours surrounding the missing nose of the Egyptian Sphinx. Some say it was used as target practice by Napoleon’s troops, some that it was destroyed when a pharaoh found his workers praying to the sphinx and many believe it simply eroded and fell off with time.

Today, you are taking on the role of an explorer who has just created a time machine to take you back to Ancient Egypt. Can you find out what really happened to the Sphinx’s Nose?

HieroglyphicsHieroglyphs is made from two Greek words:

hieros meaning holy glyphe meaning writing

So hieroglyph means holy writing.

Over 5000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians wrote things down using a picture writing called

hieroglyphics. The people who did the actual writing were called scribes. 

Make a cartouche:A cartouche is sort of like a nametag.  Ancient Egyptians made cartouches for kings, queens, and other high-ranking people in the kingdom.  

Click the pyramid to write yours and your partner’s name in hieroglyphics ready to make your cartouche! Start

“Cairo Slum”• Where is Cairo?

• What is Cairo like?

• What is the Cairo Slum like?

• What might it be like to live in the Cairo Slum?

LocationTake a closer look!

Where is

Egypt?

Plan a route

The Nile

Importance Facts History