Pyramid Quest
- Harun al-Rashid's youngest son Al-Ma'mun set up camp looking for the Pharaohs treasure and to find the secret of the weapon that does not rust and bends but does not break (1802 AD)
- Al-Ma'mun came with hundreds of stone mason engineers and architects, not an army of soldiers
- Scribes said that everything he was looking for was behind the stone plates of the great pyramid (guarded by the sphinx)
- The pyramid could only be entered by a stone lifted on the side, this was very hard because all the stones looked alike
- When they finally got in (by breaking in), they found no treasures
- Even the pharaohs sarcophagus was empty
- people are still studying this pyramid
Mummification
- Mummy of a young man named Herakleides
- died in Egypt in the 1st century A.D. at about 20 years old
- Mummification was developed by the Ancient Egyptians to preserve the body for the afterlife
- Typically all internal organs removed before mummification, except the heart
- In Herakleides case, the heart was removed but not his lungs
- The body is left for 40 days covered in salt until all moisture was gone
John Green's Crash Course
- Ancient Egypt is the most influential river valley civilizations
- Ancient Egyptian Civilization lasted from 3000 B.C.E. to 332 B.C.E
- The Nile River was one of the safest and richest agricultural areas in the world
- Planting was easy for the Egyptians
- Egyptian communities existed only along the Nile
- Timber and gold - the divine medal
- The Nile is easily tamed
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