(Pyramidion from Deir-el Medina, c 1300 BC)
(From George Hart: Egyptian Myths)

EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY PROJECT

1. Build a pyramid for your character - Rubric
2. NO ENGLISH can be written anywhere on your pyramid. All information is through objects, images and hieroglyphics.
3. You will be presenting your pyramid to the class, explaining your character and your hieroglyphics to us.
4. On the Outside of the pyramid walls, paste or draw: hieroglyphics representing life story, favorite items, strengths, and attributes
5. Underneath: your name in hieroglyphics
6. Inside the Pyramid: Book of the Dead, organs in jars (pictures do just fine), pictures of items to help your character in after-life and a paper body encased in a sarcophagus that has dead character's picture and name in hieroglyphics on top of it.

SITES TO CHECK FOR INFORMATION

1.  Egyptian Myth and Legend:  http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/eml/
2.  Ancient Egypt: The Mythology
3.  Egyptmyth.com:  by PONTIKIS! http://egyptmyth.com/
4.  Akhet:  Great site for history and stories:  http://www.philae.nu/akhet/index.html, Home Site address:  http://www.akhet.co.uk/mythhome.htm
5.  Egyptian Hieroglyphics:  http://www.greatscott.com/hiero/
6.  Egyptian Hieroglyphics:  http://www.jimloy.com/egypt/egypt1.htm
7.  Online Egyptian Translator:  http://www.quizland.com/hiero.htm
8.  Get your name translated at: http://www.jimloy.com/hiero/yourname.htm
9.  Egyptian Mythology from Encyclopedia Mythica:  http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/africa/egyptian/articles.html
10.  Myth on Osiris:  http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/mff/egypt.htm
11.  Shipwrecked

Q Presentation

1.  Basic Information/Overview:    http://www.emayzine.com/lectures/egyptian.htm
2.  Another short info overview:  http://nefertiti.iwebland.com/egyptian_mythology.htm
3.  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/2226/Egyptian/egypt.html
4.  Osiris Cult- http://www.touregypt.net/Osiriscu.htm
5.  Egyptian Myth:  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/4396/stories.htm


Image Citation
Pyramidion from Deir-el Medina, c 1300 BC.  Jonsson, K.M. “Brief Overview History of the Egyptian Religion, part II: II - The Old Kingdom ca 2686-2181 BC. ”  Akhet. 2003. 8 Nov. 2003 <http://www.philae.nu/akhet/history2.html>.