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Starter Activity. Please take a look at the below photograph of King Tut’s burial coffins. What do these images tell you about King Tut? . King Tut: Curse or Coincidence . You will be divided into pairs today in class

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  1. Starter Activity • Please take a look at the below photograph of King Tut’s burial coffins. What do these images tell you about King Tut?

  2. King Tut: Curse or Coincidence • You will be divided into pairs today in class • Please complete the King Tut: Curse or Coincidence Activity with your assigned partner • Be sure to read together and answer the attached questions in complete sentences

  3. Summarizing Question • Let’s answer the following question as a class… How do you think the discovery of King Tut’s tomb in 1922 has impacted our understand of the ancient Egyptians?

  4. 3-2-1 Starter Activity Pick up a slip of paper as you take your seats and complete the following… • Please list 3 things that you already know about the Egyptian pharaohs • List 2 things that you remember about King Tut? • Write 1 question you still have about the ancient Egyptians

  5. Section 4, The New Kingdom • The Egyptian Empire started during this time • Pharaohs wanted to expand control beyond the Nile River • The warrior-pharaoh, Thutmose III, extended the Egyptian empire to include Syria and Palestine • Unlike most pharaohs, Hatshepsut, favored building temples and trading • Most pharaohs wanted power and war • Egyptians tradedweapons and metal tools for ivory, leopard skins, and a black wood called ebony

  6. Egyptian Hieroglyphics • Egyptian picture writing is called Hieroglyphics • The key to understanding this writing was the Rosetta Stone Fun fact: The Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799 and is kept at the British Museum in England

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