金字塔是古埃及人非凡工程技术的明鉴。
The pyramids are an eloquent testimony to the ancient Egyptians' engineering skills.
古埃及人把天堂视为他们现实生活的理想形式。
The ancient Egyptians saw paradise as an idealized version of their own lives.
5000多年前，古埃及人制造了风力船。
More than 5,000 years ago, ancient Egyptians made boats powered by the wind.
古埃及人也制造肥皂。
没人知道古埃及人是如何在开罗附近建造金字塔的。
No one is sure how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids near Cairo.
此外，还有一些实物证据表明古埃及人对飞行感兴趣。
In addition, there is some physical evidence that the ancient Egyptians were interested in flight.
古埃及人把太阳升起比作生命的开始，太阳落下比作生命的结束。
The ancient Egyptians compared the rising of the sun to the beginning of life and the setting of the sun to the end of life.
那时候还没有现代的机器和设备，那么古埃及人是如何建造它的呢？
At that time, there were no modern machines or equipment, so how did the ancient Egyptians build it?
古埃及人玩的许多游戏和我们今天仍然玩的游戏很相似。孩子们玩赛跑和跳跃游戏。
Many of the games played by ancient Egyptians are similar to games we still play today. Children played racing and jumping games.
对古埃及人来说，知道尼罗河季节的时间是很重要的，他们的生活方式取决于尼罗河季节什么时候来临。
It was important to the ancient Egyptians to know when their Nile based seasons would occur, their way of life depended upon it.
尼罗河虽然在一年的大部分时间里平静而祥和，但是过去每年都会泛滥，从而生成、灌溉并把新的表层土搬运到附近的古埃及人赖以为生的农田。
Calm and peaceful for most of the year, the Nile used to flood annually, thereby creating, irrigating and carrying new topsoil to the nearby farmland on which ancient Egypt depended for livelihood.
古埃及人不穿很多衣服，男人、女人和孩子通常穿着薄布做的简单长袍。
Ancient Egyptians did not wear many clothes, men, women and children often wore simple robes made of thin cloth.
加州大学洛杉矶分校埃及学副教授韦利克·文德里希说：“没有证据证实（古埃及人利用）风筝抬起重物。”
"The evidence for kitelifting is non-existent," says Willeke Wendrich, an associate professor of Egyptology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
她写了一本关于古埃及人习俗的书。
She has written a book on the manners and customs of the ancient Egypians.
古埃及人相信转世重生吗？
古埃及人曾经佣有膏渡文明。
古埃及人的新年从夏季开始。
Thee people of ancient Egypt began their new year in summer.
千百年里，古埃及人对尼罗河顶礼膜拜。
可能是让他们觉得古埃及人很酷的什么事。
It will be one or many things that form an impression that Ancient Egypt is cool.
和古代中国人相比，古埃及人的生活是怎样的？
How did ancient life in Egypt compare to the existence of the ancient Chinese person?
古希腊和古埃及人通过跳舞来表达对神灵的尊敬。
The people of ancient Greece and Egypt danced to honor their gods.
他们遇到的古埃及人和课本里的古埃及人相同的机会微乎其微。
Rarely will the Ancient Egypt they stumble on look like the Ancient Egypt of textbooks.
古埃及人民认为，地球上的死，是到另一个世界的旅程的开始。
The people of Ancient Egypt believed that death on Earth was the start of a journey to the next world.
古埃及人民建立起了世界上第一个国家，这为持续数千年的埃及文明打下了基础。
The people of ancient Egypt developed the first nation-state, which would set the stage for a culture that would last thousands of years.
它们所处的那个年代，古埃及人类们还只是形成规模不大的农耕小村落，零星地散布在尼河罗谷上。
They come from a time when Egypt was populated only by small farming communities living along the Nile Valley.
而现代科学家因为知道那些眼妆中含有有害的铅成分，对古埃及人的想法一直不以为然。
Modern scientists determined that the make-up contains often-harmful lead, so they discounted any beneficial effects.
英国出租车司机艾伦•比利斯去世后，被制成木乃伊，成为3000年来首个仿照古埃及人制作木乃伊法老的方法制作的木乃伊。
A former British taxi driver has become the first person in the world for 3, 000 years to be mummified in the same way as the pharaohs .
湿软的古尼罗河想必滋生了不少导致眼部感染的细菌，而这些眼妆的应用则帮助古埃及人加速了免疫系统的工作，从而无眼病之虞。
The ancient marshy Nile would have hosted many eye disease-causing bacteria. Application of the makeup may have revved up cells' immunity and protected against infection.
湿软的古尼罗河想必滋生了不少导致眼部感染的细菌，而这些眼妆的应用则帮助古埃及人加速了免疫系统的工作，从而无眼病之虞。
The ancient marshy Nile would have hosted many eye disease-causing bacteria. Application of the makeup may have revved up cells' immunity and protected against infection.
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