Mediterranean Sea Rosetta Stone Stone slab, carved with three different scripts, which provided the key to deciphering hieroglyphs in the 19th century.
Karnak Temple
Bastet
Largest temple complex in Egypt, dating from the Middle Kingdom.
Cat goddess who represented the power of the Sun to ripen crops. People worshiped statues of her at Bubastis.
Sinai
Colossus of Memnon
One of two great statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, built about 1350 BCE.
Tanis Avans Rosetta
Bubastis Heliopolis
Great Pyramid
Memphis
Giza
One of the Seven Wonders of the World, this is the largest and oldest pyramid at Giza.
Nefertiti Queen of Egypt in 1353–36 BCE, when her husband Akhenaten moved the capital to Amarna. Nefertiti is famous for a beautiful sculpture of her, now in a museum in Berlin.
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Upper Egypt
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Sobek
Sphinx Great statue of a lion with a human head, built 4,500 years ago.
In Crocodilopolis, people prayed to statues like this, which shows Sobek the Crocodile, god of rivers and lakes.
“If anyone would know how great I am, let him surpass one of my works.”
Valley of the Kings Burial ground of pharaohs of the New Kingdom. Tutankhamun's tomb was found, untouched, containing the golden mask of his mummy, in 1922.
Narmer Palette Thoth Baboon god of wisdom whose cult center was at the ancient city of Hermopolis, where people prayed to statues like this.
Decorated stone that depicts the victories of King Narmer, the pharaoh who first united Egypt.
Pharaoh Ramesses II, inscription in his memorial temple, the Ramesseum, 13th century BCE
3100– 30 BCE
Land of the pharaohs
Egypt was a narrow strip of fertile land along the Nile River, surrounded by desert. It was in the Nile Valley that the Egyptians built their immense pyramids, colossal temples, and secret tombs, containing mummies of their dead, cut deep into hillsides. Pharaohs were the rulers of Egypt for more than 3,000 years, from around 3100 BCE until the country became a province of Rome in 30 BCE.
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THE GREAT SPHINX IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST STATUES:
