The ancient Egyptians are considered among many to be the civilization upon which much of the western world's views and attitudes are based. Everything from religion, to architecture, to art has been handed down, generation by generation, to us in the present day. Although many of the ancient Egyptians' traditions have been modified or altered, the majority of their core principles remain constant.
The lands along the Nile were rich enough to be farmed, so over time the people started to grow crops. They found ways to store the yearly floodwaters and then use them for the dry seasons. The farmers learned to lift water out of the Nile or wells and send it across the fields through a system of canals. In order for all of this to work out they had to work together, no one could do any of it alone. So as the farmers and people began to cooperate, an organization began to grow. They found leaders among them who directed the work. A form of government developed and due to that they soon began to build cities, to manufacture things, in time to trade with their neighbors.
That is how it all started. Over a period from 3100 B.C. to 332 B.C. they grew in culture, arts, religion, science, medicine, and many other fields. The early Egyptian pe

bad diseases, where they didn't understand the cause, magic spells were mixed with the potions. Even if the magic didn’t work itself the patient felt a little better just thinking it might work.

paintings where women are shown wearing skintight transparent dresses with no underclothes. I guess they wanted the art more attractive. Men usually wore loincloths and short kilts. Much of the people's clothes were made of linen because for the mostly hot weather they needed light, loose, and easily washed clothes. Linen was perfect for that. Children went naked whenever it was warm enough. At about the age of 10 they started to wear the same kind of tunics or kilts as their parents.

e person’s heart in one pan in another a feather of Ma’at, the goddess of justice. The more crimes the dead person admitted to, the heavier the heart. If it outweighed the feather, then the Gobbler, a monster made of lion, crocodile, and hippo, swallowed it and it became an evil spirit, forever fighting the gods. If it passed the test it went with Osiris to live in the fields of Yalu, a place like Egypt only more beautiful. They had a saying; “He who reaches the other world without wrongdoing shall exist there like a god.”

The religion of the ancient Egyptians was rather complex. Creation was believed to have been made out of darkness and chaos. With the physical creation of earth, mankind, and gods came the abstract concepts of law, religion, ethics, and kingship. Those were to last for eternity, which solidifies the notion that ancient Egyptians were very conservative. They believed there was no change; the universe worked according to a certain pattern governed by principles laid down at the beginning of time. Ancient Egyptians took the seasons to mean life was a cylindrical process, and that there was life after death

Their art is what makes ancient Egyptians popular today among other things. What they are also known by is their writing and calculations. They used a form of writing called hieroglyphics. The script is made of about 750 signs, which include pictures of people, animals, plants, and objects. The last priests who wrote in this way died in about A.D. 400, and the ability to read hieroglyphics died with them. The Egyptians were a practical people, and to them knowledge was important because it was useful. They needed ways to measure their fields, and predict the size of their crops, and figure out supplies, so they created a simple arithmetic and geometry. There were only 7 signs for numbers. There was no zero and no multiplication or division. To multiply they added the number to