Egypt Web Quest

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Egypt Web Quest

• By Hunter Blake
• SS1

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1) What did the barber do to find customers?

• www.ancientegypt.co.uk/trade/story/main.html

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2) What was Duaf trying to show his son that
leads to the story?

• www.ancientegypt.co.uk/trade/story/main.html

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3) Why was the bent pyramid, built the way it
was?

• http//www.ancient-egypt.org/

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4) What period of ancient Egypt is after the New
kingdom and how many dynastic periods does it
consist of?

• http//www.ancient-egypt.org/

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5) What were mastabas made of and what has
happened to most of them?

• www.discoveringegypt.com/pyramid1.htm

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6) What is the purpose of the letter and what did
it make Pepi II forget?

• http//www.discoveringegypt.com/k-q6.htm

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7) How did ancient Egyptians believe humans were
created?

• http//www.nemo.nu/ibisportal/0egyptintro/1egypt/i
  ndex.htm

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8) What type of crown does Osiris wear?

• http//www.nemo.nu/ibisportal/0egyptintro/1egypt/i
  ndex.htm

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9) What did the great sphinx symbolize of ancient
Egypt?

• http//www.guardians.net/egypt/sphinx/index.html

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10) What is the reason the Sphinxs nose has been
broken off, according to this website?

• http//www.guardians.net/egypt/sphinx/index.html

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Answers

• 1) He searched the streets to find people that
  need to be shaved.
• 2) He tried to influence his son to love writing.
• 3) The unstable sandy underground below it.
• 4) The late dynastic period.
• 5) They were made from sun dried mud brick and
  most have crumbled to dust.

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• 6) The purpose was that Pepi II heard that the
  person he is writing to has found a mystical
  creature and Pepi II forgot his royal dignity.
• 7) The first created people were created by the
  ram god Khnum by being made of mud of different
  colors on a potters wheel.
• 8) The Atef crown.
• 9) Strength and wisdom.
• 10) The nose was target practice for the Turks
  in the Turkish period.