A Special Guest Blog Post by Jeremy Chase

This is an example of a well-written blog post for the Battle of the Ancient Civilizations.

A Civilization for the Ages: Ancient Egypt

The Egyptians had many achievements. Some of their greatest were in architecture, literature/writing, art and music.

I have a list of what I think are the greatest achievements in each category.

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Architecture

The Egyptians were amazing builders. They built many temples, monuments, and tombs that some people think only aliens could have built at that time. 

The pyramids are probably their greatest achievements in architecture. Mainly, they could only use manpower and the wheel to move giant limestone blocks into place to create these giant structures. 

For instance, the Great Pyramid of Giza had 2,300,000 limestone blocks, each weighing an average of 2.5 tons!                                             

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Literature and Writing

In terms of literature/writing, there were also many achievements. I am choosing to go with the one that started them all, hieroglyphics (the ancient Egyptians form of writing). 

The Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system was one of the first in the world. The earliest proof of this system was from 3300 B.C. 

The system includes around 600 symbols, most being pictures of objects. The Egyptian hieroglyphics can also be read from left to right or from right to left, which sometimes makes reading it very confusing.

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Art

I believe that the Egyptians had some of the most amazing temples. They not only had unbelievable paintings inside, but the outside can be just as amazing. The most gobsmacking of all is definitely the four 66 foot tall statues of Ramses II. 

These statues are found at the Abu Simbel temples in Nubia, part of southern Egypt. The temples and the statues were carved right out of the mountainside during the reign of Ramses II.

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Music

Last but not least is music. The Egyptians invented an instrument that a lot of people can recognize as the harp. The first solid evidence of the harp in ancient Egypt was around 2500 B.C. 

The instruments were originally shaped like bows. The amount of strings on these instruments varied from 4 all the way to 20. The instruments also varied in size, some were very small and some were as big as an average human!

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P.S.

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