1. Ancient Egypt Introduction

3. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853- 1942)

4. Jean-Léon Gérôme, Napoleon Bonaparte Before the Sphinx, 1867-68. Hearst Castle, San Simeon.

5. Giovanni Battista Belzoni, dressed in Arab fashion, ca 1816-1820; illustration from Belzoni’s Viaggi in Egitto ed in Nubia, vol 1 (Livorno, 1827)

6. The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum and Champollion's comparison of his decipherment of the letters in the name Ptolemy, with that of Young (middle column) Champollion depicted in Egyptian dress and with a beard in a pastel drawing made in Florence at the return from the expedition by Giuseppe Angelelli, 1828

7. Howard Carter with King Tut’s sarcophagus, 1922

8. Palaeolithic700,000-7000 BCE Saharan Neolithic8800-4700 Early8800-6800 Middle6600-5100 Late5100-4700 Predynastic5300-3000 Lower Egypt Neolithic5300-4000 Maadi4000-3200 Upper Egypt Badarian4400-4000 Naqada I4000-3500 (Amratian) Naqada II3500-3200 (Gerzean) Naqada III3200-3000 (Dynasty 0) 1 ST Persian Period (27 th -30 th )525-404 2d Persian Period343-332 Ptolemaic Period332-30 Macedonian332-310 Ptolemaic305-30 Roman30 BCE-642 CE