1. EGYPT
BY EMILY, MOLLY, CELINA AND SOPHIE

2. WHERE?
Egypt is in northern Africa. The
Mediterranean Sea forms one
of its borders. The Red Sea,
Libya and Sudan are on other
borders.

3. QUICK FACTS
 Egypt, one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations, still draws
visitors and businessmen by the plane-load. Ancient monuments, the
Red Sea coast, Nile Cruises and Africa's largest city, Cairo, are among
its many attractions.
 More than 76 million people live in Egypt.
 The main language is Arabic. The main religion is Islam, and there are
some Christians.
 The president's name is Mohammed Hosni Mubarak

4. LIFESTYLES
 Some people live in villages of mud-brick houses and work
as farmers. Others live in cities in apartments in buildings of
steel, stone and glass.
 some people work on farms. The Egyptians grow
barley, beans, fruit, cotton and lentils. Rice and sugar cane
are grown too. Farm animals include buffaloes, cattle, goats
and sheep.
 Many people earn their living catching fish.
 Others in factories which produce
aluminum, cement, chemicals, fertilizers, food products, iron
and steel, and textiles.
 Egyptians sells oil, cotton, fruit and vegetables, rice, and
textiles to other countries.

5. TRIBES
There is a well known tribe in Egypt they are
called the Bedouin. The Bedouin are a nomadic
tribe, move around in the deserts of Egypt with their
herds of animals. Many Bedouin live in goat-skin
tents. Bedouins are Muslims and speak an Arabic
dialect. Most of the Bedouins from the Sinai and
Negev desert have come from the Arabian
peninsula, other migrated from the desert of Egypt,

6. HISTORY
 Daily life in ancient Egypt revolved around the Nile and the
fertile land along its banks. The yearly flooding of the Nile
enriched the soil and brought good harvests and wealth to
the land.
 The people of ancient Egypt built mud brick homes in
villages and in the country. They grew some of their own
food and traded in the villages for the food and goods they
could not produce.
 Most ancient Egyptians worked as field hands, farmers,
craftsmen and scribes.

7. RECENT NEWS IN EGYPT
In Cairo's Tahrir Square there has been
protest over eight consecutive days which is
aimed at trying to force the president to
resign.
The protests have left more than 100 people
dead .
it has destroyed international stocks and oil
markets.

8. HIEROGLYPHS
 Egyptian hieroglyphs were a formal writing system
used by the ancient Egyptians that contained a
combination of logographic and alphabetic
elements.
 Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious
literature on papyrus and wood.
 Less formal variations of the script, these called
hieratic and demotic, but are not hieroglyphs.

9. MUMMIFYING
 It was very important to ancient Egyptian religious beliefs that the
human body was preserved. A method of artificial preservation,
called mummification was developed by the ancient Egyptians.
Mummification was a complicated and lengthy process which
lasted 70 days.
 But only the Egyptian’s who could afford to pay for the expensive
process of preserving their bodies for the afterlife.
 The Egyptians believed that when they died, they would make a
journey to another world where they would lead a new life. They
would need all the things they had used when they were alive, so
their families would put those things in their graves. Egyptians
paid vast amounts of money to have their bodies properly
preserved. Egyptians who were poor were buried in the sand
whilst the rich ones were buried in a tomb.

10. NOW IT’S YOUR TURN WHO CAN MUMMIFY ARE
TWO MUMMIES THE FASTEST?

11. THANK YOU FOR
WATCHING!