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Hello and welcome to Home School History.

I'm Greg Jenner, the historian behind TV's Horrible Histories, and the host of the BBC

Radio 4 Podcast, you're dead to me.

I'm here to deliver a snappy history lesson to entertain and educate the whole family,

who says that homeschooling can't be fun.

Today we are travelling back over 3000 years to Ancient Egypt to learn about religion,

magic, gods, and not so yummy mummies.

And when we say Ancient Egypt, we're talking about a civilization that lasted over 3000

years, which is massive.

So today we'll just cover the era known as the New Kingdom, which lasted from 150050

BCE to 1700 BCE.

We'll start with the ancient gods, because they were super important.

In the New Kingdom, Egyptians believed in many different gods, which were grouped into

families.

For example, Amun, the king of the gods, was married to Mut, the Vulture goddess, and they

had a son, Konsu, who was the moon god.

And Egyptians also thought two gods could join together and become a new, mega-powerful

fusion god, kind of like in Power Rangers or the Crystal Gems from Stephen Universe.

Amun joined up with Ra, the sun god, to become Amun Ra, the big boss god.

Speaking of bosses, during the New Kingdom, Egypt was ruled by a Pharaoh, and these were

usually powerful men like the mighty Ramesses II or the teenager Tutankhamun.

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