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How did you become interested in Ancient Egypt? Did anything special happen that got you interested in it? I've liked it for as long as I can remember!! Wink

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Ankhesenamun3 · Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:41 pm Post subject:

I first got interested in egypt when my grandma went there. She brought back books and stuff and i got to reading them and really liked them. And have liked Ancient Egypt ever since.

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Anyone else have any special reason why they got interested in Ancient Egypt?

Meritaton · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 2:13 pm Post subject:

When I was about 6 I read the comics version of a novel which was an ancient Egyptian mystery, with a fantasy twist (sounds bad enough, but remember, I was 6 at the time Smile

) and it made me interested in Egypt.
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Ankhesenpa-aten · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 6:07 pm Post subject:

Oh wow...it's been a while, lemme think, when I first got into ancient egypt...I think it was when I was around 4 or 5, we had neighbors that were from Egypt, and i was friends with their kiddies ( i think they had 3 sons and a daughter), anyways I remember hanging out with them a lot, we used to visit each other's houses. They gave us a papyrus painting of Tutankhamun's funerary mask, and i was curious, and have been hooked on ancient egypt since.

P.S. I think i still have that papyrus painting somewhere...i'm gonna go find it later...he he....
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egypt22 · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 12:40 am Post subject:

I got into Ancient Egypt in the fifth or sixth grade when I remember i watched a movie on i think it was Tutankhamun on the history channel or something like that and i was so amazed by how people lived so long ago that i instantly liked it.
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Tash · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 3:47 am Post subject:

I was intreuged by the pyramids, that and i watched on of the old mummy movies,
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paw · Servant Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Posts: 12 Location: Sweden

First I wanted to become a archeologist, but around were I live theres only digs from Vikings etc. Nothing that really intrests me. Then a saw a documentary on Egypt, one of those general ones. Since then I've been totaly sold. But it's really just this last year/years wich I have started "investegating" myself. After we read on ancient egypt in my culturehistory class. Then I really wanted to learn more (everything Very Happy

). And now my plan is to study egyptology and archeology.

PharoahKel · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 6:58 pm Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 3:48 am Post subject:

i just do... i don't know why... when i was 13 i watched this arabic series of Moses... they got really a wonderful actors to play nefertari and others.. It was so mesmerizing... perhaps since then i'm interested to know people around Moses... before i was just Shocked

of the building. only recently i was more interested into their beliefs and customs... one of my fav topic was abt Exodus...

Osiris II · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 5:55 pm Post subject:

When I was 9 years old, I read a bok by Halliburton--Richard Halliburton was a 120's Indie Jones-type character--and I thought exploring and finding treasure sounded soooo cool! Since then, of course, I have learned that Egyptology is vastly different than a treasure-hunt!
I remember--I think it was the 7th grade--I built a model of the Great Pyramid for a project--using sugar cubes! The ants LOVED it! LOL

Dark_Meryetamun_28 · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 1:49 pm Post subject:

my sister got me interested in Egypt. I don't even know how, since it was such a long time ago.
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Si-amun · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 2:09 pm Post subject:

From the age of about three my grandmother used to take me to the British Museum every other weekend. We spent hours there, also visiting the other Museums. She loves Egypt, but a far more romanticised idea of it. We went to Egypt when I was nine and since then we keep going back, sparking even more interest every time. Since the day I first looked into the face of Ramses II in the Cairo Museum I knew that Egypt was mt obsession, and i haven't looked back since!
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kissMEthursdays · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 12:10 am Post subject: hmmmm...

Until recently, I've only really been interested in Ancient Greece and Rome (7th form classics and art history rocked!!!) but after reading Karen Essex' Kleopatra and Pharoah I realized that OH MY GOODNESS, ANCIENT EGYPT IS PRETTY DARN KOOL TOO!
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