Ancient Egypt - National Geographic

The Nile river More than 5,000 years ago It's water skate birth to one of the great civilisation at the average revise at the history of the world Ancient Egypt ruled for about 3,000 years by kings called pharaohs the egyptians created intricate artwork built great stone monuments and developed the world's firs national government they created the first basic forms of the arithmetic and 365 day calendar and kind of writing code hieroglyphics living behind the reputiv their world in words as well as in stones the ancient egyptians built great tunnels many of which still stand today but the egyptians were not obsessed with the death rather they were so in love with life that they wanted to go on forever