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Introduction to Ancient Egypt
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Introduction to Ancient Egypt

A beginner's guide to the spectacular world of Egyptology: dynasties, religion, mummies, pharaohs, pyramids and temples.
Created byMahmoud Zaghloul
Last updated 11/2018
English
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What you'll learn

  • Gain an overall understanding of ancient Egyptian civilization
  • Identify the main periods of ancient Egyptian history
  • Be familiar with the ancient Egyptian religion and different gods
  • Be familiar with the different types of ancient Egyptian temples
  • Understand the importance of mummification and how it works
  • Be familiar with ancient Egyptian mythology
  • Discuss current topics in Egyptology

Course content

5 sections • 29 lectures • 2h 3m total length

  • Introduction1:30

    Explore how Egypt's geography and deserts protected communities, while the Nile linked Africa and Asia as a crossroads for a rich material and cultural life.

  • The Nile River5:33

    Explore the Nile, the world's longest river shaping Egypt's geography, calendar, and economy through annual floods, the delta and cataracts, and the division of Upper and Lower Egypt.

  • Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt1:50

    Explore how ancient Egyptians divided their territory into Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, each with symbols such as the lily for Upper, the cobra for Lower, and the vulture.

  • Nomes, or Provinces1:19

    Egypt organized into provinces called nomes, or gnomes, each governed under central authority with an emblem, totaling 42 nomes—22 in Upper Egypt and 20 in Lower Egypt.

Requirements

  • There are no prerequisites, but students are encouraged to take notes on the lessons to improve their retention of information.

Description

Five thousand years ago the land of the papyrus and the land of the lotus united to form one long, thin country ruled by one semi-divine king. For the next three thousand years Egypt would maintain a culture so distinctive that even today, some two thousand years after the last pharaoh occupied throne of the Two Lands, it has instant, universal recognition.

This course is divided into four sections, In the 1st section of this course, we are going to begin with the geography of the land itself, emphasizing how the Nile River shaped the culture of the ancient Egyptians.

In section 2, we are going to take a comprehensive view of the timeline of ancient Egypt from the pre-dynastic time 5000 BC to the fall of ancient Egypt in 30 BC. Covering powerful pharaohs, royal pyramids religious shifts, wars, and art.

In section 3, we are going to dive into the mysterious ancient Egyptian religion, covering gods and goddess, temples, important concepts like Maat, and key mythologies like the myth of Osiris.

In section 4, we are going to touch on the very unique concept of death in ancient Egypt, why the afterlife mattered so much to the ancient Egyptians, and why they had so lavish tombs; also in this section we are going to cover mummification and how it works.

Who this course is for:

  • Those who wish to gain a deeper understanding of the ancient Egyptian life and culture set in the specific geography of the land and its river, the Nile, within the historical framework of the dynastic sequence.

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