What Life Was Like on the Banks of the Nile: Egypt, 3050-30 BC

The dazzling ancient Egyptian civilization, which was born by the river Nile and flourished for more than 3,000 years, captures our imagination as no other culture before or since. Their magnificent pyramids, colossal temples, and brooding Sphinx never fail to awe and astound us. But even more amazing are other artifacts, ones that the Egyptians never meant for us to see – rolls of papyrus, pottery chips, and tombs – that tell us about the people who built the grand structures that grace the Egyptian landscape.