Egypt: Secrets of the Ancient World. by Lindsey Phillips https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36 Questions 1-5 en-us 2016-11-04 12:35:26 UTC 2016-11-14 15:11:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Desiree https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36/wish/135500208 The text says "Extensive use of stone--here and there carved to resemble wood, reeds, or other softer materials--made the tomb more durable than its mud-brick forebears. Such pioneering techniques led many ancient historians to credit the chief architect, Imhotep, with inventing stone architecture"]]> 2016-11-04 19:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36/wish/135500208 derek 4804341460 https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36/wish/135500313 Egypt:secrets of the ancient world the text says “Intended to hold his mummified body, Pharaoh Djoser’s Step Pyramid Saqqara began as a traditional, flat-roofed mastaba.” and The Fihrat the text says “In the middle of the plateau a beautiful chamber was built, inside of which a sort of mausoleum was set up.”]]> 2016-11-04 19:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36/wish/135500313 Emmanuel voted Bernie sanders tbh (╭ರᴥ•́) https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36/wish/135500329 As in earlier Mastaba tombs, the Step Pyramid’s burial chambers are underground hidden in a maze of tunnels probably to discourage grave robbers. The tomb was, nevertheless, plundered, and all that remains of Djoser, the third king of Egypt’s 3rd dynasty, is his mummified left foot. 


]]> 2016-11-04 19:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36/wish/135500329 Tatianha and Rebecca  https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36/wish/135500364 the text says "It was the largest building of its time. 
Extensive use of stone--here and there carved to resemble wood, reeds, or other softer materials--made the tomb more durable than its mud-brick forebears. Such pioneering techniques led many ancient historians to credit the chief architect, Imhotep, with inventing stone architecture. "

]]> 2016-11-04 19:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36/wish/135500364 Devin  https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36/wish/135500398 The Text Says, "Between the two pedestals is a stone vessel sealed with a gold lid; lifting the lid, one perceives a sort of odourless dried resin in which has been placed a gold box enclosing a quantity of blood, which, upon exposure to the air, shows the coagulation peculiar to blood, then dries up.]]> 2016-11-04 19:43:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36/wish/135500398 Waleska & Valentina  https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36/wish/135500410 "Extensive use of stone--here and there carved to resemble wood, reeds, or other softer materials--made the tomb more durable than its mud-brick forebears. Such pioneering techniques led many ancient historians to credit the chief architect, Imhotep, with inventing stone architecture".


]]> 2016-11-04 19:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36/wish/135500410 TJ Ben Jhensen  https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36/wish/135500432 First Passage.
At the top of the tomb are two magnificent, perfectly dressed blocks, surmounted by two stone statues representing a man and a woman facing each other.
Second Passage.
on the Giza Plateau, Khufu’s builders oriented his pyramid almost perfectly North. The largest pyramid ever built, it incorporates about 2.3 million stone blocks, weighing an average of 2.5 to 15 tons each. It is estimated that the workers would have had to set a block every two and a half minutes. 


]]> 2016-11-04 19:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36/wish/135500432 Arianna Ortiz https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36/wish/137395477 The Text Says, "Between the two pedestals is a stone vessel sealed with a gold lid; lifting the lid, one perceives a sort of odourless dried resin in which has been placed a gold box enclosing a quantity of blood, which, upon exposure to the air, shows the coagulation peculiar to blood, then dries up.]]> 2016-11-14 15:11:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lindsey_phillips/t01l83c3iz36/wish/137395477