Science - Technology Team (list member first names & last initial)
- Andrew O. Joseph V. Eddie M. Stephen T. Christopher P.
- Astronomy - is the study of stars, planets, comets and the universe as a whole.
- Mummification - is the process of making a mummy.
- Mummy - body that has been embalmed and wrapped in linen.
- Embalming - process developed by the ancient Egyptians of preserving a person's body after death.
- Papyrus - is the reed plant of the Nile Valley used to make a form of paper.
- Heiroglyphics - system of writing made up thousands of picture symbols developed by the ancient Egyptians.
- Canopic - relating to or being an ancient Egyptian vase, urn, or jar used to hold the viscera of an embalmed body.
- Viscera - the soft internal organs of the body.
- Decons - 36 groups of Ancient Egyptians star-gods or constellations. The brightest and most important decon was Sirius.
Imhotep Aslepius
EGYPTIAN MEDICINE
The Egyptians believed that there was a God of Medicine named Aslepius. The first egyptain medicine scroll was called the Ebers papyrus. It was dated back to 1550 BC. It held over 700 surgical formulas that cured many different pains and injuries. It also gave a description of the circulatory system that is similar to the one we use today.
The first medicine was developed by Imhotep in 2700 BC. He was the chancellor of the king in lower Egypt. Imhotep wrote the Edwin Smith Papyrus which was a medical book telling how to treat different injuries. The Egyptians also had many different prescriptions. One was honey and milk which was used to treat injuries. Some of the treatments shown in the papyrus are still used today.
Edwin SmithEEbers
Egyptian Astronomy
The Egyptians year was very similar to ours. It had 365 days and 12 months. The only difference was that that they had 10 days a week and 3 weeks a month. There were 5 added festival days honoring the gods added to the year.
Then in 2400 B.C. the Egyptians made the first astronomical calendar. The Egyptians had 5 constellations. They also had 36 groups of stars callled decons. Some gods and goddesses were seen as constellation such as the god, Orin. Other gods and godesses were seen as astronomical bodies. Astronomy also helped in everyday life because every year the Nile flooded so the astronomers used the stars to figure out when the floods would occur each year.
Mummification
Mummification was started a long time ago. It took about seventy days to embalm a person, so it was a very long process. This also was a very expensive process, so the Egyptians thought only the highest of the soical class could be mummified. This was also one of the most important science studies in Egypt because they learned a lot about the human body during this process. The Egyptians learned how to make the first medicines during mummification as well. After they took out the organs, they put them in jars called canopic jars. Each organ was placed in a separate jar. The liver was placed in the Imsety (human head ) jar. The lungs were placed in the Hapy (baboon head ) jar. The stomach was placed in the Duamutef (Jackel head) jar. The intestines were placed in the Qebehsenuef (Falcon head) jar.
Canopic jars Mummy
Mathematics
In Ancient Egypt, math was used a lot and it was a very important as a science and a technology. The Egyptians used math to create a calendar which is closest to ours today. They also used math to make pyramids like we use math to make buildings today. They also made one of the most important math scrolls in history called the Rhind Papyrus. In this papyrus, we learn how to figure out many different mathematical problems. The Egyptians knew how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. In the numeral system, they used symbols as numbers.
Rhind papyrus Numeral system
Ancient Egypt's Science & Technology
Today's Science & Technology
Through our research we found that most of Ancient Egypt's science and technology was the start of today's science and technology. The calendar, medicine, surgery, mathmatics, building, and astronomy that were developed by the Ancient Egyptians can still be found today.
Click on the link below to play a ancient egypt computer game made by the science and technology group member Chris P.
ancient egypt adventure.exe
ancient egypt adventure 2.0.exe
Ancient egypt adventure 3.0.exe Readme.txt
Look for a secret treasure on version 3!
Source: www.aldokkan.com/science/science.htm Aldokkan
Source:http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/numbers.htm The Ancient Egyptian Numer System
Source:www.mos.org/quest Ancient Egypt Science and Technology
Source:www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/mummy/ Mummies of Ancient Egypt
Source:http://www.egyptologyonline.com/astronomy.htm Egyptology Online
Comments (55)
wikiuser0011 said
at 5:49 pm on Oct 2, 2008
Good Luck on the project!
wikiuser0002 said
at 3:54 pm on Oct 3, 2008
Did you guys write anything yet? Like the paragraph thing?
wikiuser0002 said
at 3:57 pm on Oct 3, 2008
.
wikiuser0012 said
at 9:06 pm on Oct 3, 2008
Hi guys good luck i hope you get started so i can see your wiki page soon !!!!
wikiuser0006 said
at 2:05 pm on Oct 6, 2008
good luck
wikiuser0033 said
at 5:11 pm on Oct 6, 2008
hi
wikiuser0011 said
at 6:26 pm on Oct 6, 2008
Hi guys, just saying good luck, and you should get started soon! if you take a look at almost all of the pages, every one has started! Oh, i forgot. Remember to save your stuff while your editing!!!!!!
*Taylor*
wikiuser0011 said
at 6:43 pm on Oct 6, 2008
Add more color to it, oOOH, and pictures
wikiuser0011 said
at 6:43 pm on Oct 6, 2008
Add more color to it, oOOH, and pictures
wikiuser0034 said
at 6:55 pm on Oct 6, 2008
andrew what do i do its
wikiuser0034 said
at 6:56 pm on Oct 6, 2008
andrew what do i do
wikiuser0022 said
at 9:10 pm on Oct 6, 2008
joe good links but we need more
wikiuser0011 said
at 9:42 pm on Oct 6, 2008
cool
wikiuser0033 said
at 12:40 pm on Oct 7, 2008
cool
wikiuser0018 said
at 12:40 pm on Oct 7, 2008
i stev
wikiuser0018 said
at 12:41 pm on Oct 7, 2008
i guys
wikiuser0018 said
at 12:46 pm on Oct 7, 2008
hi guys
wikiuser0018 said
at 3:53 pm on Oct 7, 2008
hi steve
wikiuser0011 said
at 3:54 pm on Oct 7, 2008
you can change the font size and make the words bigger, and very organized.
- taylor
wikiuser0018 said
at 3:55 pm on Oct 7, 2008
is any one on the wiki editing it.
wikiuser0033 said
at 4:09 pm on Oct 7, 2008
hi eddy
wikiuser0011 said
at 4:18 pm on Oct 7, 2008
did you guys just insert those pictures! Cool!.............. Your off to a good start!
Taylor I.
wikiuser0011 said
at 5:40 pm on Oct 7, 2008
guys, good job................. but you can change the text color and the font size to make it stand out more.
- Taylor
wikiuser0022 said
at 5:44 pm on Oct 7, 2008
Hey Taylor nice page
wikiuser0011 said
at 7:15 pm on Oct 7, 2008
cool video, what does it have 2 do w/ science ans technology?
- taylor
wikiuser0011 said
at 7:16 pm on Oct 7, 2008
sorry.... i mean and technology
wikiuser0022 said
at 7:29 pm on Oct 7, 2008
Imhotep was the first egyptian to make medicine and medicine is science
wikiuser0022 said
at 7:40 pm on Oct 7, 2008
hey Talyor did u try to click on Imhoteps name?
wikiuser0011 said
at 7:55 pm on Oct 7, 2008
no, but thanks 4 explaining, i like the video........ good work, if you check my page I have a video 2! I am ART AND ARCHITECTURE!
-Taylor
wikiuser0022 said
at 8:03 pm on Oct 7, 2008
I know I checked it already
wikiuser0011 said
at 8:09 pm on Oct 7, 2008
ok........ see you tomorrow
Taylor
wikiuser0033 said
at 8:20 pm on Oct 7, 2008
andrew are you editing
stephen
wikiuser0024 said
at 1:58 pm on Oct 8, 2008
Great video :-)
*Anjelica*
wikiuser0012 said
at 5:57 pm on Oct 8, 2008
hey guys great job =)
Miss Paduano said
at 7:14 pm on Oct 8, 2008
I LOVE the video! Medicine certainly is Science, and the Egyptians are credited with making the first advances in medicine!
Miss Paduano
wikiuser0011 said
at 7:51 pm on Oct 8, 2008
cool
wikiuser0012 said
at 9:06 am on Oct 9, 2008
great job =)
wikiuser0018 said
at 9:18 am on Oct 9, 2008
thank you miss paduano
wikiuser0018 said
at 11:30 am on Oct 9, 2008
is anyone on from my group
from,
eddie
wikiuser0021 said
at 8:12 pm on Oct 9, 2008
guys good job love the you tube vido i want to put one on my page how do i do it ?????????
help !!!!!!!!!!!!!thanks
~mallory~
Mrs. Olsen said
at 9:32 pm on Oct 9, 2008
Hi Science/Tech Team!
I'm glad to see that you are adding your sources. Please include page titles along with the page address. We will be going over citations in computer class next week.
Mrs. Olsen
Mrs. Gallagher said
at 5:01 pm on Oct 12, 2008
The Egyptians knew very well how to embalm the body. What did they do with the body parts? Which of the body's parts did they think not important and discarded it?
Mrs. Gallagher
wikiuser0022 said
at 12:00 pm on Oct 13, 2008
Hey Joe start reserching on mummification
wikiuser0011 said
at 5:23 pm on Oct 14, 2008
cool
wikiuser0021 said
at 9:42 pm on Oct 14, 2008
THANKS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH FOR THE GREAT LINKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I NOW CAN FINNALLY WRITE MY VOCABULARY WORDS FORM THAT PAGE THANKS AGAIN SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~MALLORY~
wikiuser0023 said
at 4:02 pm on Oct 15, 2008
Hey, guys the video had a bad link on it so I had to take it off. DON'T PUT IT BACK ON.
Christopher P.
wikiuser0023 said
at 6:33 pm on Oct 15, 2008
Everyone, I made version 2 of the game! On this version, you keep your score when you get the treasure, and on the last level on ver 1, you were supposed to loze a life when you didn't answer correctly.
Have fun!
Christopher P.
Miss Paduano said
at 7:23 pm on Oct 15, 2008
HI Team,
Here is a hint to Mrs. Gallagher's question. Try to remember the game we played in class where we needed to get the body ready for mummification. Think hard, you definitely know this!
wikiuser0033 said
at 8:08 pm on Oct 15, 2008
what happened to the you tube video?
wikiuser0023 said
at 8:49 pm on Oct 15, 2008
I had to get rid of it because it had a bad link
wikiuser0025 said
at 5:53 pm on Oct 17, 2008
Heyy chris i played the video game losts of fun!!!!!!!
wikiuser0033 said
at 7:57 pm on Oct 17, 2008
Andrew, under Egyptian Astronomy is the word decon. I can't find it in the dictionary. Is it mispelled?
wikiuser0022 said
at 12:47 pm on Oct 18, 2008
Steven if u go to egyptology .com it tells u wat a decon is
wikiuser0033 said
at 5:59 pm on Oct 18, 2008
Andrew,
Thanks, I found it.
wikiuser0012 said
at 8:48 pm on Oct 20, 2008
good job!!!
~Nicole~
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