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Heart Weighing Welcome to the heart weighing land  of Egyptians ! I bet you are wondering what I mean by Egyptians weighing hearts. Well, when the Egyptians died, in order to go to the afterlife you had to weigh your heart with a feather. Sounds funny, right? If you want to learn more about Egypt,  please read the rest of this page. You’ll be amazed!  In ancient Egypt  there were these marvelous structures called pyramids. They made their humongous pyramids out of blocks of heavy limestone. Each block of limestone weighed about 2 tons each! They had thousands and thousands of blocks of limestone in each pyramid. Archeologists today still stare in awe at the ancient structures. The Nile  River  was the most important resource in ancient <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Egypt <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">. They used it daily for many different things. The ancient Egyptians couldn’t live without the precious <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Nile <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">. They used it to bathe in, to fish in, it was their main drinking source, and they used it to travel to. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">The pharaohs in ancient <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Egypt <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"> were just like kings and queens. The Egyptians in ancient <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Egypt <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"> thought the pharaohs were gods on earth. They treated them like they were the last ruler on earth. One of the most famous pharaohs is King Tutankhamen (King Tut). The reason why he is so famous is because he is one of the only pharaohs that his tomb didn’t get broken into. Most of the pharaoh’s tombs in ancient <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Egypt <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Trebuchet MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"> got broken into. They also didn’t know how King Tutankhamen died. He had many broken bones and had a big hole in his head. He also died at a very young age; he died at the age of twenty. He also became pharaoh when he was only nine years old! It’s amazing what the pharaohs did back then! So we went from learning about the amazing sculptures we call pyramids to learning about the Egyptians precious Nile River. Last we were informed about the Egyptian gods on earth called pharaohs. There is a lot more about Egypt but I just wanted to talk about the important things. You can come back anytime to the heart weighing land of Egyptians and take the tour again.