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The Hidden Treasures of Egypt Unit 4 Warm-up Questions True or False? Egypt is a country located on two continents ---Asia and Africa. Egypt is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west. Egypt is widely regarded as an important political and cultural nation of Africa. The Suez Canal, which joins the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, largely shorten the voyage from Europe to Africa. Warm-up Questions True or False? 5. Regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood enabled Egypt one of the world’s great civilizations. 6. Cairo is an ancient city, well known for its importance in the history of pharaonic civilization, due to being the home of the Great Sphinx and the Giza pyramid complex. 7. The Egyptian Museum in Cairo is world famous for the ancient artifacts it has on display, but even more extensive collection are kept in storerooms. Warm-up Exercises I (P.50) tomb pyramid Pharaohs royal Artifacts mummy Word Bank 1 decay vt. Make something slowly destroyed by a natural chemical process -ologist is used to replace -ology at the end of nouns in order to form other nouns that refer to people who are concerned with a particular science or subject. archaeology /ɑ:ki?l?d?i / archaeologist / archaeological Egyptology / Egyptologist / Egyptological symbolic a. symbol n. antiquity n. an artifact surviving from the past; historical works of art, relics Part 1 I (P.51) The Egyptian Museum of Cairo the amazing artifacts in this Museum III (P.51) It’s something that you can never see in any museum in the world. I don’t think that any museum in the world would really have a basement like this. When you come here and you walk around the galleries, you can smell history. They performed the first plastic surgery in history! Word Bank 2 exclude vt. deliberately not include sth. exclusion n.