Egyptian civilization

Egypt is called the 'Gift of the Nile'.The Greek historian Herodotus called Egypt the "gift of the Nile", since the kingdom owed its survival to the annual flooding of the Nile and the resulting depositing of fertile silt. The Nile River flows into the Mediterranean Sea, and there is a delta at the mouth.Historians divide the history of Egypt into three periods:the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom and the New Kingdom.The Egyptian was called the pharaoh.The Egyptian were the worshipper of the nature and sun wad their most important God.The Egyptian believed that after death both the body and the soul live while other people believe that only the soul lives and body perishes.So Egyptians took great care in preserving the body of the dead.The body was embalmed in spices and then wrapped in strips of fine linen.Such a preserved body is called a mummy.The mummy was put in a wooden box and buried.The pyramids and the Sphinx are the two specimens of Egyptian architectural excellence.The Pyramids were the tombs of kings and they contained the mummies of these monarchs.The most imposing of all is the Great Pyramids at Gizen in cairo,built by the king Cheops of the old kingdom.The Great Pyramids is one of seven wonders of the ancient world.The Sphinx is a mythological animal with the body of lion and the head of man.Each Sphinx was carved out a single solid stone.The Egyptian script, known as hieroglyhic was deciphered by chapolilian.The Egyptian developed a decimal system of numeration.The crowning achievement of the Egyptians was the solar calender.