Highly Developed Culture
Clothing
Upper class women wore dresses made from linen or a beaded net dress over a close-fitting sheath dress. Lower class women wore loosely fitted dresses. Most dresses for all women was an ankle-length sheath dress that attached at the shoulder. Men wore wraparound skirts. The fabric, length, fit, and decoration of each skirt depended on the man's rank an wealth. Men rarely ever wore shirts. Poor men and slaves only wore loincloths. Linen was the most commonly worn fabric and it was sometimes dyed. Tanned animal skins were made into shoes and sandals. Wealthy men and women also wore heavy black eyeliner to protect their eyes from the brightness of the sun. They also wore lipstick, nail polish, and goold jewellery.
Architecture
The Ancient Egyptians lived in one room houses made of mud bricks and reeds. The roofs were made of large palm leaves. The wealthy lived in large homes with a grand entrance and many rooms. These were built around courtyards that contained swimming pools or gardens. Thr middle and upper class people owned wooden furniture. They had clay dishes and gold, silver or bronze tableware. Poor people always ate with their fingers.
Important structures the Ancient Egyptians built were built with stone as they were intended to last forever. They built the Great Pyramids of Giza and the temples in Tiebes.
Language
Ancient Egypt has the second longest history of any language. Hieroglyphics were developed to record what was produced, taxes that had been paid, supplies recquired for temples, and military information. Hieroglyphic writing consists of hundreds of symbols that can represent a word, sound, or object. They were used lots on stone monuments in tombs. Hieroglyphics were later used for letter writing and recording stories.
Art
Art was very important to Ancient Egyptians. They created paintings, sculptures, weavings, etc. They used mineral pigments to paint on the walls of the tombs with paint brushes made of animal hair. Snake venom and egg whites were mixed to protects the paintings from rain, wind, sand, etc. Dance and music were also important. They had rattles and even "professional" singers, dancers, acrobats, and musicians.
Religion
The annual flooding of the Nile river became part of the Ancient Egyptian's religion. They also had hundreds of deities and gods they believed in. The Ancient Egyptians were extremely concerned with death and life after death so they preserved the bodies of the pharaohs in huge tombs and pyramids.They would fill the tombs with things needed in th afterlife like pottery, sculptures, jewellery, furniture, clothing, and musical instruments. They preserved the bodies by mummification. They would remove the inernal organs, wrap the body in linen and bury it in a sarcophagus. Lower class people were buried with pots or food in shallow graves in the desert sand. They weren't preserved, but wrapped in linen or covered in straw. Because the bacteria that decomposes bodies needs moisture to survive, the desert's dry air caused the bodies to lose moisture quickly and create "natural" mummies.
The Ancient Egyptians believed that every human being was composed of physical and spiritual parts. In addition to the body, each person had a shadow, personality or soul, life-force, and name. They thought the heart held our thoughts and emotions. The ultimate goal of the dead was to rejoin his or her life-force and personality or soul and become one of the "blessed dead", living on as an "effective one". The dead had to be judged in trial for this to happen. If judged wothry, the deceased could continue their existence on Earth in spirtual form.