Egypt The Geometry of the Immortal

The pantheon of Egyptian gods

Osiris Isis Set Anubis Horus Hapi Ptah Hathor Ra Sobek Thoth Ma'at

The Funerary Scene

Canopic jars What are this for?

PP Design of T. Loessin; Akins H.S. BURIAL MASKS

Tutankhamun's Death Mask 9

10 Mastabas

Module #2: Ancient Egypt 11 Entrance to a Mastaba

12 Mud Brickmaking

13 Mastaba to Pyramid

The Architect of the Pyramids He was the world's first named architect who built Egypt's first pyramid, is often recognized as the world's first doctor, a priest,. scribe, sage, poet, astrologer, and a vizier and chief minister, though this role is unclear, to Djoser (reigned 2630–2611 BC), the second king of Egypt's third dynasty. He may have lived under as many as four kings. An inscription on one of that kings statues gives us Imhotep's titles as the "chancellor of the king of lower Egypt", the "first one under the king", the "administrator of the great mansion", the "hereditary Noble", the "high priest of Heliopolis", the "chief sculptor", and finally the "chief carpenter".

15 Pyramid of Zoser, Saqqara 2750 BC

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17 Pyramid of Zoser, Saqqara Imhotep designed the first pyramid as a series of stepped mastabas, and switched from mud brick to limestone. The wall around was 10m high and 545m N-S by 277m E-W.

18 The Pyramids at Giza Are a wonder due to their sheer size and the precision with which they were built. Cheops 230m x 146m high Chephren 216m by 144m high Mycerinus 109m by 67m high

19 Pyramids at Giza  Cheops  Chephren  Mycerinus

[Virtual] Pyramids at Giza Sketch-Up details?mid=9e9fed300841ab8ae504fdbd b5a7e96&prevstart=0 details?mid=9e9fed300841ab8ae504fdbd b5a7e96&prevstart=0 Google Earth - "Pyramids at Giza" lat= , lon= Module 1 Architectural History 20

Module #2: Ancient Egypt 22 Construction of Pyramids: No records telling of construction methods, and no scholarly agreement on how they were constructed. Construction provided work for a community for a lifetime. We should not see the pyramids as the fruit of slave labour

Module 1 Architectural History 23 Internal Ramp Theory he-great-pyramid-the-internal-ramp-theory/ External Ramp Theory

Module #2: Ancient Egypt 25 Chephren Mortuary Complex

Papyrus In Ancient Egypt Papyrus was a paper used by the ancient Egyptians. 0:53 video.htm

Wealthy man’s house at Amarna.

A. Harvesting grain; B. Musicians play for the workers in the fields; C. Women winnowing the grain; D. Scribes tally the farmer’s taxes; E. The farmer’s son tending the livestock / cattle.

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Pylon Temple of Horus Edfu, BC Module 1 Architectural History 32 Horus as a falcon Horus symbols: sun, wings, scarab beetle

Temple of Amun-Ra, Thebes Obelisks of Thutmose 1 + Queen Hatshepsut Module 1 Architectural History 33

34 New Kingdom: Thebes Karnak &Luxor Luxor Temple Karnak Temple

35 Temple of Khonsu, reconstruction

36 Temple of Amon-ra, Karnak

37 Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Amun-Ra

38 Tomb of Queen Hatshepsut Deir el Bahari, 1500 BC

Break-time 41 Next: The Asian Sub-Continent The history of architecture is also a history of the relationship between architect and patron