Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-184) and index.
Time Line -- Trade map of the ancient Near East -- The Egyptians: Egyptian history and geography -- Egyptian architecture -- Simple step pyramid -- Houses for everyday life -- Egyptian model garden -- Egyptian clothing -- Girl's long dress -- Boy's short kilt -- Easy Egyptian bracelet -- Double-stranded necklace -- Egyptian writing -- The Story of the shipwrecked sailor -- Hieroglyphic writing -- Hieroglyphic secret note -- Egyptian work -- Ancient Egyptian laundry -- Sailors and ships -- Egyptian sailboat -- Egyptian food -- Overnight fig cakes -- Egyptian religion -- Mummies -- Egyptian burial rituals -- Ma'at -- The Mesopotamians: Mesopotamian history and geography -- Mesopotamian architecture -- Mesopotamian house model -- Cone mosaic -- Mesopotamian clothing -- Long robe -- Queen's headdress -- Mesopotamian writing -- From pictures to sounds -- Cylinder seal -- Clay letter and envelope -- Mesopotamian mail -- Mesopotamian work -- Weaving on a hanging loom -- Medicine -- Math Sumerian-style -- Mesopotamian food -- Sebetu rolls -- A Royal Assyrian meal -- Assyrian feasts -- Mesopotamian religion -- Imagine you are a Mesopotamian god -- A Substitute king -- Ziggurat -- Model ziggurat -- staircase for a god -- The Nubians: Nubian history and geography -- Nubia underwater -- Black pharaohs from Nubia -- Piye loved horses -- The God's wives -- Nubian architecture -- Imaginary Nubian house -- Model mud-brick house -- Nubian clothing -- Royal headdress -- Royal robe -- Earrings -- Fringed shawl -- Nubian hair clip -- Nubian writing -- An Ancient inscription -- Reading and writing using the Meroitic alphabet -- Nubian work -- Model irrigation machine -- Nubian food -- Millet breakfast porridge -- Nubian religion -- The Lion-God: making a myth -- The First Nubian pyramid: Piye's tomb -- The Hittites: Hittite history and geography -- Hittite architecture -- Maze of the Great Temple -- Hittite clothing -- Hittite shoes -- Hittite costume -- Hittite pendant -- Hittite writing -- Hittite hieroglyphs -- Understanding Hittite -- Scribal schoolwork -- Writing on clay -- Hittite work -- Victory for all -- Hittite food -- Pig's milk and other goodies -- Storing food in the ground -- Hittite hummus -- Hittite lentil soup -- Kitchen rules -- Hittite religion -- Anatolian sistrum (tambourine).
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Uses activities and handicraft projects to reinforce information about the clothing, architecture, writing, work, food, and religion of the Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Nubians, and Hittites who lived in the Near East in ancient times.
Handicraft.
Handicraft.
Civilization-- Study and teaching-- Activity programs.
Civilization.
Handicraft.
Egypt, Civilization, To 332 B.C., Juvenile literature.
Egypt, Civilization, To 332 B.C., Study and teaching, Activity programs, Juvenile literature.
Middle East, Civilization, To 622, Juvenile literature.
Middle East, Civilization, To 622, Study and teaching, Activity programs, Juvenile literature.