There are seven days in a week. 一星期有七天。 I don't need to tell you their names because you know them already. 我不必告诉你他们的名字因为你已经知道了。 But have you any idea where and when it was that the days were each...
Would you like to know how to write using hieroglyphs? 你想知道如何用象形文字书写吗？ In fact, learning this sort of writing must have been incredibly hard, as it's more like constructing a picture puzzle. 事实上，这种书写确实不...
Next to these brightly colored paintings you often see lots of tiny pictures of all sorts of things, 在这一排排彩色画像的旁边，你往往会看到许多画着各种各样的东西的小画像， such as owls and little people, flags, flow...
But the Egyptians knew what they were doing. 但是古埃及人知道他们在做什么。 Every detail is clear: how they used great nets to catch ducks on the Nile, 每一个细节都一目了然：他们如何在尼罗河畔用大网捕鸭， how...
But the mummies of other kings and those of many ancient Egyptians have been found undisturbed in their tombs. 但是人们却发现别的国王的以及许多古代埃及人的木乃伊仍还在他们的墓穴里。 A tomb was intended to be a dwell...
And yet the most important part of the Egyptians' strange religion was their belief that, 但埃及人的奇怪宗教中最重要之处却是他们的信仰： although a man's soul left his body when he died, for some reason the soul went on needing...
In the Egyptian religion, certain animals were sacred: cats, for example. 在埃及的宗教中，有些动物也是神圣的，譬如猫。 Other gods were represented in animal form. 人们把某些神描绘为动物的形态。 The creature we kno...
Perhaps you're wondering why the pharaoh should want to build such a gigantic tomb? 你也许要问：为什么法老想建造这么一座巨大的坟墓呢？ It was all part of his religion. 这跟他的宗教有关。 The Egyptians believed in man...
One such pharaoh was King Cheops, who lived in about 2,500 BC. 就有这样一位名叫齐阿普斯的法老，他生活在于公元前2500年。 He summoned all his subjects to help construct his tomb. 他就曾下令让他所有的臣仆建造他的坟...
Glory be to thee, oh Nile! 赞美你啊，尼罗河! You rise out of the earth and come to nourish Egypt! 你来自大地，来到这儿，给埃及输送营养! You water the plains and have the power to feed all cattle. 你灌溉田野，喂养全部...
