Country Profile: Egypt PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY Except for the Nile valley, Egypt is desert and semi-desert. The most rugged parts are in the Sinai peninsula, where Mount Catherine reaches 2,637 metres (8,650 feet). The western desert, mostly plateau, falls to altitudes below sea level, as in the Qattara Depression, towards the Mediterranean.

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What kind of government system did the ANCIENT Egyptians have? Can you improve this answer?

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Why did the Egyptians believe in many gods and an afterlife?

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Why was Egypt called the gift of the Nile?

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How did the Nile River affect the development of Egyptian civilization? Can you improve the answer to this essential question?

Imagine that you are relaxing in your room on a Saturday afternoon reading about Ancient Egyptians when you come across a picture of a mural with interesting writing on it. You move closer to the page to get a better look at the mural when all of a sudden... KaBLOOM! You are immediately transported back into time! It is the year 1250 B.C. and you are in Ancient Egypt!

During this dynasty Egyptian culture advanced rapidly. The beginning is dusky with more than one candidate to be the founder. The table of Nabil Swelim below is based on the opinion that the complex of Djoser was a cultural peak that had developed for a period of about 60-80 years of the dynasty. There is no general agreement among scholars on this table. Khaba and Sa are usually put at the end of the dynasty topped by Sanakht followed by his brother Djoser. This era is famous for a new type of tomb which gave Egypt fame through of all times - the great Pyramids.

On this Web site, wander through the chambers and passageways of the Great Pyramid, and learn about the pharaohs for whom these monumental tombs were built. You can also follow the 1997 field season of a team of archaeologists as they excavated the bakery that fed the pyramid builders

Excavations on Cairo's westernmost outskirts have revealed what archaeologist Mark Lehner calls a "royal production center," at lower right, that fed and equipped pyramid workers at Giza. To the left lies a cemetery dug into a cliff containing some of the builders' tombs.

Who Built the Pyramids? Not slaves. Archeaologist Mark Lehner, digging deeper, discovers a city of privileged workers.

Archaeologists believe Egypt's large pyramids are the work of the Old Kingdom society that rose to prominence in the Nile Valley after 3000 B.C. Historical analysis tells us that the Egyptians built the Giza Pyramids in a span of 85 years between 2589 and 2504 BC. Interest in Egyptian chronology is widespread in both popular and scholarly circles. We wanted to use science to test the accepted historical dates of several Old Kingdom monuments.

How do we know that the settlement located at the foot of the Giza Plateau belongs to the same period of time as when the Egyptians were building the pyramids? Two kinds of evidence tell us that we are excavating a 4th Dynasty site (2575-2465 BC): ceramics and sealings.