Roar 76-100

5 COMMENTS

-On some coffins, there is the portrait of the person on it
-The Palace of Amenophis was found in 1888
-The Kahun Papyri was found in 1889
-In 1893 he discovered a whole army of wooden soliders, "The Soldiers Of Mesehti
-In 1895, they discovered a bunch of blue artfiacts

4 Questions

Why were some of the artifacts blue?
What was the point of drawing the persons picture on the coffin?
-What was the wooden army made for?
Why were their many statues of animals?

3 vocabulary

Kilt-to draw or tuck up, as the skirt, about oneself
deities-a god or goddess
Epithet- any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality

2 LIterary terms

"a beautifully modelled, red slipped pottery lion"

"the extraordinary head, carved in green stone"

1 Overview

These pages talk about some of the more recent finds in Egypt