Valley Of The Kings is a desert valley located in Thebes.
Illahun is a modern village located near the nile valley.
Memphis is a city that is on the border between upper and lower egypt, Menes is the man that joined these two places.

The Pyramid Of Giza
-There was a queens chamber
-The descending passage leads to the subterranean chamber
-The subterranean chamber is nearly 100 feet underground
-The ascending passage is the beginning of the long walk to the kings chamber
- The grand gallery contains a small passage that leads to the kings chamber
- The kings chamber is where king Khufu was buried
- The subterranean chamber is the lowest chamber that is underground
- The descending passage is the second lowest chamber
- The ascending passage is fourth passage to the kings chamber
- The grand gallery and the queens chamber are two different chambers that the ascending passage leads to
- The grand gallery is a upper gallery that is the last place which then leads you to the kings chamber
- The kings chamber is very important and is practically the top and it is what all the other chambers lead to

Although the Nile river is just a river, to the ancient egyptians the Nile river is a very big deal in egypt, it helped them for transportation, like boats their crops, their crops would get watery and the water also makes fertile soil which again helps the food, every year the  nile river flooded, it was also a source of telling when it was a new year, unlike us they didn't have calendars saying the date, moth or year instead they relied on the floods to know when a new year was coming. Water was a major thing with the Nile river the source of water is limited in deserts like egypt so the Nile river was a perfect place for them to get water from, it was the ancient egyptians main water source. There is a reason as for why ancient egyptians didn't build in the Nile Delta, this reason comes back to the annual flooding, if the egyptians had of built and lived right at the delta when the floods came their houses could of been ruined, the soil was not solid enough for building. The Nile river did many things to shape ancient egypt.

Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut was there fifth pharaoh of ancient Egypt in the eighth dynasty. She was the longest female to ever hold the throne in ancient egypt. Today historians believe she was pharaoh of egypt for about 22 years. She was born in the 15th century BC, she is daughter os Tuthmose I and queen ahmose, they were both from royal families. Hatshepsut was the favorite of their three children. Her two brothers passed away before her so she was to gain the throne when her father died, she was destine to be the queen. It was one of the most unusual things to of had a female leader to nook after the kingdom \, almost unheard of. Although tuthmose son was meant to be king yet only for a few years because he passed away. Hatshepsut was meant to wait for her nephew to take over but she wanted to be a pharaoh just like she was. Hatshepsut couldn't hold on to the throne for ever, she unfortunately died and was buried in the valley, she will rest there forever.

There were many pharaohs, all of these pharaohs were different and had different ways to rule egypt, one of my favorite pharaohs is Akhenaten, Akhenaten was born around 1380 BC and died around 1336 BC. He was the son of Amenhotep the 3rd and queen Tiyi. Tiyi was not a part of the royal family, so she was married for love rather than a set up marriage. Amehotep the 3rd and Tiyi never showed Akhenaten in any family potraits, nor did he go to all of the royal events it is believed he would stay at home waiting for the others to come back home, so it is a mystery for this reason why he wasn’t really loved as much as the other kids, it is believed that there were 8 children including Akhenaten. Akhenaten had a different belief in artwork was to portray pharaohs and royal families as normal people with imperfections rather than making them all look god like and with no personal faults. Akhenatens leadership style was unpopular because of the one god he believed in and how he didn’t use the temples. Although he ruled for 17 years. Amen was known as the main god in the past years before Akhenaten, but Akhenaten thought of Aten the son god as the one god abandoning the belief of Ra, Horus and Amon the gods, he tried to make all egyptians only believe in Aten. He claimed that he was the only one who could speek to Aten. Akhenaten had a main wife named Nefertiti. She was 13 years old when she married Akhenatan. He had also 95 wives, Although during the 12th year of him rueling egypt he found a princess called Baketaten, she bacame his new favorite compared to Nefertiti. Nefertiti vanished forever and historians don’t know where she was and why she left. He also had five daughters and two sons, with Nefertiti. It is believed that his son was Tutunkaten who grew up to be Tutunkaman. He died around 1334-1336BC. After Akhenatens death him and his belief about the one god was entirely erased in egypt, and his city was abandoned. The old religions were brought back and most of the art was destroyed. His history was practically wiped and none of the other pharoahs really kept his belief.

There are many different pyramids with different locations and pharaohs who made them, but like all there was a first, the first ones were made around 2630 BC Steppe pyramid of Djoser made by pharaoh Djoser, an interesting fact about this one is that it covered 40 acres or 16 hectares. Over time new pharaohs like Snefru made more pyramids, Snefru made three pyramids. In which one of them was the first ever smooth sided pyramid. All of his pyramids were made during 2600 BC. After pharaoh Snefru died his son pharaoh Khufu made the largest pyramid ever, its called the great pyramid. Pharaoh Khafre made a very complex pyramid.One of the last pyramids in Giza was made by pharaoh Menkaure but this pyramid was very small and when Menkaure died the pyramid was not made any more complex like Menkaure wanted it.

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