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    Ancient Egyptians had advanced practices in many areas including makeup, metallurgy, writing, medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and construction of pyramids. They wore makeup believing it protected them from gods, mined and smelted metals like copper and gold, developed hieroglyphic writing used for over 4,000 years, employed herbal medicine and surgery, studied the night sky to align structures, used a number system for math problems, and built pyramids as tombs for pharaohs of different shapes and sizes.

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    Ancient Egyptians had advanced practices in many areas including makeup, metallurgy, writing, medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and construction of pyramids. They wore makeup believing it protected them from gods, mined and smelted metals like copper and gold, developed hieroglyphic writing used for over 4,000 years, employed herbal medicine and surgery, studied the night sky to align structures, used a number system for math problems, and built pyramids as tombs for pharaohs of different shapes and sizes.

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    Ancient Egyptians had advanced practices in many areas including makeup, metallurgy, writing, medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and construction of pyramids. They wore makeup believing it protected them from gods, mined and smelted metals like copper and gold, developed hieroglyphic writing used for over 4,000 years, employed herbal medicine and surgery, studied the night sky to align structures, used a number system for math problems, and built pyramids as tombs for pharaohs of different shapes and sizes.

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    Egyptian

    Civilization

    make-up
    Makeup was used by both men and
    women in ancient Egypt. Some
    academics believe that people in
    ancient Egypt wore cosmetics
    metallurgy because they believed it would
    shield them from the gods Ra and
    Copper, gold, silver, and iron were Horus.
    the most common metals in ancient
    Egypt. The quartz veins were mined
    for gold, and the ore had to be
    crushed. Egyptians understood how
    to extract copper from oxide and writing
    sulphide ores, smelting the ore
    repeatedly to get increasingly pure For over 4,000 years, the ancient
    metal. Egyptians utilized the unique script
    known today as hieroglyphs (Greek for
    "holy words"). Hieroglyphs were written
    on papyrus, carved in stone on tomb and
    paper temple walls, and embellished a variety
    of cultic and everyday goods.
    Papyrus is a writing medium
    created from the papyrus
    plant, a reed that grows in
    marshy places near the Nile
    river, from which we derive
    the current word paper. medicine
    Herbal treatments and
    surgery were among the
    advanced medical
    techniques used by the
    ancient Egyptians, which
    blended the supernatural
    with the natural.
    Astronomy
    Egyptians examined the
    night sky, collecting
    measurements from the
    stars to align their pyramids
    and sun temples with the
    earth's four cardinal points,
    as did many other ancient mathematics
    peoples.
    For counting and solving
    written mathematical
    problems including
    multiplication and fractions,
    the ancient Egyptians used
    a number system. The
    Pyramid evidence for Egyptian
    mathematics is restricted
    Pyramids were erected by the to a small number of
    ancient Egyptians as tombs for
    papyrus-based texts.
    their pharaohs and queens. From
    the commencement of the Old
    Kingdom through the conclusion
    of the Middle Kingdom, the
    pharaohs were buried in pyramids
    of various shapes and sizes.

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