Unit 6: Genre Study 2 – Expository Text

He ordered the construction of two magnificent ships: one to guide Cheops safely through the dark, perilous underworld of night, and the other to carry him up across the sky to embark on his eternal journey with the sun.

Travel by boat was so intrinsic to the Egyptian way of life that it shaped the people's beliefs about this world—and the next.

While Cheops's funerary ships were being finished, workers carved two pits—each a hundred feet long, eight feet wide, and eleven feet deep—out of the solid limestone bedrock at the base of his pyramid.

Meanwhile, throughout the construction period, the priests responsible for the dead had been meticulously following the rituals that prepared Cheops's body for life after death.

Kamel el Mallakh, the Egyptologist supervising the work, found this intriguing. The ancient Egyptian builders were always so precise about their measurements; why, then, this variation?

What at first was only a jumble of timbers now emerged like an exquisite butterfly from its cocoon.

The excavation of his tomb revealed countless treasures.

Alice, who works with George, was using a cotton swab to wipe 3,500-year-old dirt from another, much smaller boat, and I couldn't help admiring how the restorers are so methodical in the way they work, analyzing and fixing up objects that were excavated in the desert.