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Khan Academy: History Uncovered in Conserving the Rosetta Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
When the Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799, the carved characters that covered its surface were quickly copied. Printer's ink was applied to the Stone and white paper laid over it. When the paper was removed, it revealed an exact copy...
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Hieroglyphics

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the Alien Travel Guide provides information on the different customs of Egyptian Theatre. There is also a hieroglyphic of Egyptians dancing. Set up as a slide show, user may also click through a variety of other theatre...
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Louvre Museum: A Closer Look at the Seated Scribe

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a closer look at a work of Egyptian sculpture wherein you can see details of the work through a virtual magnifying glass. Accompanying commentaries and animations provide historical and artistic analysis. Useful in-context tools...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Great Sphnix

For Students 9th - 10th
A statue built on the Giza Plateau in Giza, Egypt, consisting of a lion with a human head. The Sphinx is believed to have been built by ancient Egyptians.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: An Egyptian Scribe

For Students 9th - 10th
A statue of a man who recorded books and/or documents during the era of Ancient Egypt.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Building the Pyramids

For Students 9th - 10th
Egyptians using pulleys to build a pyramid.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Fruit Gathering Monkeys

For Students 9th - 10th
Monkeys appear to have been trained to assist in gathering fruit; and the Egyptians represent them in the sculptures handing down figs from the trees to the gardeners below; but, as might be expected, these animals amply repaid...
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Etc: Clip Art Etc: Funeral Procession Crossing the Lake of the Dead

For Students 9th - 10th
As the mummy of the dead was placed in a barge to be taken across the Lake of the Dead-for it was the manner of the Egyptians to bear the bodies about to be entombed across the water to the place of the sepulture-the members of the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Mummy and Cover of Coffin

For Students 9th - 10th
An image depicting the coffin used for mummies in ancient Egypt.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Nile

For Students 9th - 10th
Pheron the king of ancient Egypt is moving an unthinkable amount of soldiers and supplies across the Nile.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pyramids Scene

For Students 9th - 10th
A scene from ancient Egypt, with the pyramids in the background.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Temple of Chesnu at Karnak

For Students 9th - 10th
Gallery of columns. Built by Ramses III during ancient Egypt.
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Khan Academy: Pyramid of Menkaure

For Students 9th - 10th
The third of the major pyramids at Giza belongs to Menkaure. This is the smallest of the three, but the complex preserved some of the most stunning examples of sculpture to survive from all of Egyptian history. Read the history of this...
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Khan Academy: Pyramid of Khufu

For Students 9th - 10th
The Great Pyramid was built by the pharaoh Khufu and is the largest of the Great Pyramids of Giza. Read details and view pictures of this engineering accomplishment in this article.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ancient Hebrew Manuscript

For Students 9th - 10th
A papyrus of the first century A.D., containing the Ten Commandments. It was discovered in Egypt.-Webster, 1913
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Khan Academy: The Great Pyramids of Giza

For Students 6th - 8th
The great pyramids at Giza are one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. Learn the role the sun played in the construction of the pyramids. Included is a map of where the pyramids are located in Giza, a bibliography for further...
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Egyptian Temple Plan

For Students 9th - 10th
A side-by-side comparison of the design principles embodied in ancient Egyptian versus ancient Greek temples, with additional facts and illustrations about the function and evolution of temples in ancient Egypt. Includes short...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Clavis

For Students 9th - 10th
A key. The key was used in very early times, and was probably introduced into Greece from Egypt; although Eustathius states, that in early times all fastenings were made by chains, and that keys were comparatively of a much later...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Amenophis Iii

For Students 9th - 10th
Sometimes known as Amenhotep III. Ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Egyptian dynasty.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Egyptian Pharaoh Chephren

For Students 9th - 10th
Chephren was an Egyptian pharaoh. His capital was at Memphis.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses Iii

For Students 9th - 10th
Ramesses III as Osiris, between the goddesses Nephthys and Isis.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Head of Mummy of Ramses Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
The mummy was discovered in 1881, in an underground chamber near the site of Thebes. With it were the coffins and bodies of more than a score of royal personages. They had all been taken from their tombs and placed in the vault to...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Rameses Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
An Egyptian pharaoh of the ninteenth dynasty.