1. Week Six

2. The old kingdom in Egypt
was also called the Age of
the Pyramids.

3. King Khufu built the
great pyramids at
Giza. 2700-2200 BC

4. The Middle Kingdom would have been when
Joseph was Prime Minister during the famine in
Egypt. 2050-1800 BC

5. The Early Kingdom was
during Amenhotep & King
Tut’s reign. 1570-1300 BC

6. The Golden Age
followed the Early
Kingdom. It was from
1300-1090 BC.

7. Ramses II is also believed to be the
Pharoah that lived during Moses’ time.

8. Ramses the great came to the throne at a young
age and served for a time with his father.

9. He fought a powerful people in Asia called the Hittites
and the Philistines who we read about in the Bible.

10. Ramses started a great
building called the “Great
Hall” whose columns were
78 feet high.

11. He built many buildings during this time.

13. The kingdom dwindled
after his reign.

14. A mummy is a body of a person who has
been preserved after death. There is a
process to embalm the body and protect
it from decay.

15. Egyptians believed the body had to be
preserved to be okay in the afterlife.

16. We know that to be absent from the body,
you are present with the Lord if you are a
Christian. Egyptians did not believe in God.

17. It was almost an art to mummify an
Egyptian. The body was washed & purified.

18. The next step was to remove
the person’s organs.

19. The organs were individually wrapped with
long strips of linen and placed in jars.

20. The body cavity was then stuffed with
natron. The brain was removed
through the nose using a long hook.

21. Since the ancient Egyptians thought the brain was
unimportant, it was probably thrown away.

22. The body was then left to dry out for 40 days with a
special chemical, then it was prepared for bandaging.

23. The body was then adorned with Gold,
jewels—even the fingers and toes were
covered with special gold caps.

24. The last layer of bandages went on
& one last coat of resin.

25. They wrapped the head with a mummy mask.

26. Once the body was prepared, it was time for the
funeral.
People were hired to
cry over the body.

27. The Egyptians had many ceremonies for
the dead to be ready for the afterlife.
They practiced this for over 3,000 years.

28. Many mummies were plundered and the
gold was stolen off their bodies.