The Archaic Period and Old Kingdom Ancient Egypt The Archaic Period and Old Kingdom

Scenes from Harkhuf’s tomb at Qubbet el-Hawa (6th Dyn) Wikipedia http://www.osirisnet.net/tombes/nobles/menna69/e_menna_05.htm Scenes from Harkhuf’s tomb at Qubbet el-Hawa (6th Dyn)

Ivory label from Den’s tomb in Abydos (1st Dyn); British Museum wikipedia Den braining an enemy; the inscription reads, "The first occasion of smiting the East“ Ivory label from Den’s tomb in Abydos (1st Dyn); British Museum

http://blog.seniorennet.be/egypte/archief.php?ID=66

Early dynastic tombs at Umm el-Qa'ab Wikipedia “Mother of Pots” http://www.odysseyadventures.ca/articles/mastabas/abydos.html https://www.abc.se/~pa/mar/abydos.htm Early dynastic tombs at Umm el-Qa'ab Subsidiary burials of the Tomb of Aha Tomb of Den Boat burials near the funerary enclosure of Khasekhemwy (2d Dyn)

Palace façade, Djoser pyramid complex (2d Dyn) wikipedia Palace façade, Djoser pyramid complex (2d Dyn)

http://blog.seniorennet.be/egypte/archief.php?ID=66 http://www.desheret.org/photogallery/saqqara-map-lauer.jpg Map of Saqqara Tomb 3357

Djoser’s Step Pyramid complex (3d Dyn) Detail of double throne platform www.narmer.pl http://ancientneareast.org/tag/dynasty-4/

Two of Snofru’s pyramids: the Meidum Pyramid and the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur (4th Dyn)

The pyramids of Giza: Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure (4th Dyn) Wikipedia The pyramids of Giza: Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure (4th Dyn)

The Khufu ship, 43.6 m long, one of the boat pits (4th Dyn), and a model by ClaireRichardson Wikipedia http://www.ssplprints.com/image/100019/richardson-claire-royal-ship-of-cheops-c-2500-bc

The Sphinx and the Pyramid of Khafre https://photos.travelblog.org/Photos/19438/82607/f/540899-The-Sphinx-and-the-Pyramid-of-Khafre-0.jpg http://kenney-mencher.com/pic_old/fertile_crescent_egypt/egypt.htm

George Reisner’s excavation of Menkaure’s Valley Temple, February 9, 1910 http://emhotep.net/2013/01/06/em-hotep-digest/em-hotep-digest-vol-02-no-01-george-andrew-reisner/

Reisner’s plan of the valley temple http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/king-menkaura-mycerinus-and-queen-230 Reisner’s plan of the valley temple Menkaura and his queen (Kamerernebty II?), 142 cm high (4th Dyn), Museum of Fine Arts

Abu Gurab: Nyuserre's sun temple, ruins and reconstructed view http://alanfildes.com/plogger/index.php?level=picture&id=1069 wikipedia Abu Gurab: Nyuserre's sun temple, ruins and reconstructed view

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Scenes from Harkhuf’s tomb at Qubbet el-Hawa (6th Dyn) Wikipedia http://www.osirisnet.net/tombes/nobles/menna69/e_menna_05.htm Scenes from Harkhuf’s tomb at Qubbet el-Hawa (6th Dyn)

Tombs at Qubbet el-Hawa (6th Dyn) wikipedia Tombs at Qubbet el-Hawa (6th Dyn)

Palaeolithic 700,000-7000 BCE Saharan Neolithic 8800-4700 Early 8800-6800 Middle 6600-5100 Late 5100-4700 Predynastic 5300-3000 Lower Egypt Neolithic 5300-4000 Maadi 4000-3200 Upper Egypt Badarian 4400-4000 Naqada I 4000-3500 (Amratian) Naqada II 3500-3200 (Gerzean) Naqada III 3200-3000 (Dynasty 0) wikipedia 1ST Persian Period (27th-30th) 525-404 2d Persian Period 343-332 Ptolemaic Period 332-30 Macedonian332-310 Ptolemaic 305-30 Roman 30 BCE-642 CE