1. Ancient Egypt
ca – 25 B.C.E

2. Table of contents The Old Kingdom New Kingdom Rosetta Stone ----------
Narmer Palette
Pharaoh
Canon
Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
Hierarchal scale
Khafre
Ka - soul
Great Pyramids
Tomb art
Afterlife
Mummification
Matrilineage
New Kingdom
Queen Hatshepsut Temple
Mortuary temple
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3. Table of contents The Amarna Revolution -----
Monotheism – worshipped Aton the sun god
Queen Nefertiti
Naturalism – abandoned the canon
Tutankhamen Tomb
Gold coffin -----
Face mask
Throne
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4. Map

5. Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone, 196 B.C.E. Basalt, height 3 ft 9 in.

6. Narmer Palette
Palette of King Narmer (front and back), c B.C.E. Slate, height 25 in.

7. Canon

8. Khafre
Khafre, c BCE, from Gizeh, height 66’

9. Great Pyramids
Great pyramids of Gizeh, from left to right, Menkure, c B.C.E., Khufu, B.C.E., Khafre, c B.C.E. Top height approximately 480 ft.

10. Hunting scene
Scene of fowling from the tomb of Neb-amon at Thebes, Egypt, c B.C.E Fragment of fresco secco, height 32 ¼ in.

11. Book of the Dead
Scene from a funerary papyrus, Book of the Dead. Height 11 ¾ in.Matrilineage

12. Matrilineage
Pair statue of Mycernius and Queen Kha-merer-nebty II, Gizah, Mycernius, fourth dynasty, c B.C.E. Slate schist, height 4 ft. 6 ½ in.

13. Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir-el-Bahri., c. 2050 B.C.E. Height 97 ft.
Hatshepsut temple
Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir-el-Bahri., c B.C.E. Height 97 ft.

14. Akhenaten and his Family, c. 1353-1336 B.C.E. Sunken relief

15. Nefertiti
Portrait head of Queen Nefertiti, New Kingdom, eighteenth dynasty, c B.C.E Painted limestone, height 20 in.

16. Gold coffin of King Tutankhamen, c. 1360 B.C.E.
Tut coffin
Gold coffin of King Tutankhamen, c B.C.E.

17. Tut cover
Coffin cover of King Tutankhamen, c B.C.E. Gold with inlay of enamel, lapis lazuli, and turquoise

18. Tut
Gold mask of King Tutankhamen, c B.C.E.

19. Tut throne
Throne with Tutankhamen and Queen, detail of the back, late Marana period, New Kingdom, eighteenth dynasty, c B.C.E. Wood, plated with gold and silver, inlays of glass paste, approximately 12 x 12 in.

20. a system of writing using symbols or pictures
Hieroglyphics
a system of writing using symbols or pictures

21. Mummification
a technique used by ancient Egyptians to preserve human bodies to that they may serve as the eternal home of the immortal ka

22. a set of rules or standards used to establish proportions
Canon
a set of rules or standards used to establish proportions

23. Sunken relief
Raised relief
Relief Sculpture
Relief sculpture— a sculptural technique in which figures or forms are carved either to project from the background surface (raised relief) or cut away below the background level (sunken relief); the degree of relief is designated as high, low, or sunken

24. a ruler of ancient Egypt
Pharaoh
a ruler of ancient Egypt

25. Pyramid
an ancient massive structure found especially in Egypt having typically a square ground plan, outside walls in the form of four triangles that meet in a point at the top, and inner sepulchral chambers

26. the belief in one and only one god
Monotheism
the belief in one and only one god

27. Aten
the sun god imposed upon Egypt as the one and only god by the monotheist Akhenaten; represented as a golden disc extending beneficent rays, each one terminating in a human hand.

28. a reed-like plant from which the ancient Egyptians made paper
Papyrus
a reed-like plant from which the ancient Egyptians made paper