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Some Gods of Ancient Egypt www.communication4all.co.uk Anubis Thoth Bastet Horus Hathor Pictures used available from Miles Kelly Clip Art, Dorling Kindersley, and www.istockphoto.com Rulers of Ancient Egypt Ramses II were called pharaohs. ruled Egypt Ancient Egyptians The word ‘pharaoh’ for over 60 used a system of means great house. The years. In that picture writing called pharaoh was the most time he fathered 156 hieroglyphics. Each hieroglyph powerful person in children! He was a brave represented an object or letter. Egypt and some people soldier and a great There were considered him a god. builder. about 700 different hieroglyphs.

Egyptian The Pyramids were people in built using huge society were Pharaoh The River Nile stones. Each stone structured a was very weighed as much as little like two and a half Priests important to the Is shown Egyptians. It elephants! The finished pyramids in this had a white coating to protect the Scribes provided water picture. for drinking and stones underneath. Craftworkers for crops The Great Sphinx at Giza guards the Great Pyramids. It has the body of a lion and the Peasants and Slaves face of a human.