Ancient Egypt

They used the original hieroglyphics to write on buildings in ancient Egypt. The Egyptians made their paper called papyrus from reed stems that3 had been flattened, they it was dried and then stuck together to make papyrus. They would cut the stem of the plant into thin vertical slices. Then they would lay the strips next to each other in the same length, they would lay it slightly overlapping each other to form a layer. They would place more strips over the layer in different directions. Then they would put a cloth on top of the reed layer and then they where pounded with a mallet. When they pounded the reed layers juices would come out to help the layers stick together, then when they where stuck together they where left out to dry. It was then rubbed out until it was smooth, when it had dried in the sun. They then used glue made from water and flour to glue the ends of the sheets of the papyrus together.

Scribes were the very few of people know to read or write the Egyptian writing. Scribes had a lot of choices for jobs, some even wrote out taxes. They also calculate how much food is needed to feed tomb builders, Scribes kept the ancient Egyptian government working because of there intelligence. A Scribes was highly regarded by the ancient Egyptians. To train to be a scribe took twelve years, but being a scribe is very rewarding. Papyrus was very expensive so the children often learned on reuses able clay tablets called potsherds. They wiped clean the clay before they used it.

Students learned to read and write by repetition. Over and over boys practiced writing by writing the good things that will happen to you when you become a Scribes, such ride freely on the streets, you are in front of every one else, etc.

Language

Egyptian people spoke a mixed type of language, what this means is that the Egyptians spoke parts of other languages. These languages they mixed where from southwest Asia through to northern Africa. The language died out of use about one thousand years ago, but a Coptic Christian Church still use the ancient language. People even experts know what the ancient Egyptians language sounded like.

The old language was spoken for five hundred years till the year 2600BC, but in middle Egypt the languages was spoken since the year 2000BC for seven hundred years. The language survived till the first few years of AD. T he language spoken changed a bit over time. Unlike the English Language vowel sounds, the Egyptian language is made mostly of consonant sounds. Scientist believe the Egyptians language was spoken at the time pyramids where build. The last know stag of the Egyptian language was Coptic. In the last stage of the language it had a lot of Greek alphabet and a few letters of the old Egyptian language. Coptic used the language until the end of ancient Egypt.

The Old Egyptian language includes the so-called Pyramid Texts. Most of the texts of the ancient Egyptian language was religious and had some biographical texts. The texts turned for verbose. The Middle time of the Egyptian Language was more evolved then the old Egyptian language. The grammar was understood very well, this is because of the larger variety of texts. The tests include religious inceptions, medical and scientific texts and wisdom and literature texts.

Late Egyptian language was used for writing mainly in business documents. It was also used on monuments. Differences between the Late and middle Egyptian Language is far different to the old Egyptian language. The late Egyptian language is possibly closer to be a spoken language then the old and middle Egyptian language was. Demotic Egyptian language was found in documents and books.

Texts written in the demotic is not always written in demotic grammar. Demotic grammar is far more better then the Late Egyptian language. Coptic Egyptians language is more of an Arab language and Greek language, this happened about 640AD. The language used in modern Egypt now is Arabic.

Climate

Back in ancient Egypt, it always had the same dry climate, barely there's no rain in Egypt. The way Egyptians got water is when the summer floods came to the Nile River, the floods start around about June and end around about October.

The mornings of Egypt where hot and the nights where cold. In Egypt there were only two seasons which were mid winter that started in November, then when the mid winter season ended in April, the hot season would start which last from May to October. There are not many differences in the two climates in Egypt; the only differences are variations to daytime temperatures and changes of the wind. coastal areas in Egypt would have a low temperature of an average minimum of 14 degrees during winter. In summer of the coastal areas an average high temperature would be 30 degrees. Inland parts of Egypt temperatures vary widely in desert areas of the inlands, temperatures are 7 degrees in the night and 43degrees in the morning. In winter of the inland desert areas it can be 0 degrees at night and only reach a high of 18 degrees. Annual temperatures increase when moving southwards from the Delta to the Sudanese border, here temperatures are similar to open deserts to the east and west. Alexandria is a popular city because of its climate; the climate has a much cooler summer then other parts of Egypt. In the Delta and the northern Nile Valley there are strange temperatures, because these areas during winter may snow. Aswan in the south can have a June low temperature of 10degrees at the night, but during the day a high can be 41 degrees.