1. Art of Ancient Egypt Beginning with the New Kindgom

2. Book of the Dead, 1550-50BC Used in the New Kingdom Takes the place of Pyramid texts and Coffin texts which were painted hieroglyphics on the objects-Book of the Dead is painted glyphs on papyrus, thus the ‘book’ Some people seem to have commissioned their own copies of the Book of the Dead, perhaps choosing the spells they thought most vital in their own progression to the afterlife. The Book of the Dead was most commonly written in hieroglyphic or hieratic script on a papyrus scroll, and often illustrated with vignettes depicting the deceased and their journey into the afterlife. hieroglyphichieraticpapyrus

3. Anubis Weighing A Heart Against A Feather

4. Hathshepsut, Woman Pharaoh

5. Overview of Temple Mortuary

6. Statue and Osiritic Statue of Hathshepsut

7. Note that this was first of its kind

8. Hathshepsut on Right, Her husband on Left

9. Ramses II

11. figures of king inside the temple (atlantids) and sunken reliefs

12. Temple of Nefertari, Ramses II Queen Abu Simbel

13. Luxor Temple A large temple complex The 2 obelisks at the entrance are of differing sizes, although the placement made them seem the same height One obelisk is in a Parisian museum and called the “Luxor Obelisk”

14. Temple Entrance to Luxor

17. The Rosetta Stone, 196 BCE, basalt

18. The Rosetta Stone Important because it contains 3 languages that allowed us to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphs

19. Anubis

20. Cartouche A vertical or horizontal glyph encircled

21. Cartouche Explained from Wikipedia At times amulets were given the form of a cartouche displaying the name of a king and placed in tombs.amulets Such items are often important to archaeologists for dating the tomb and its contents. Cartouches were formerly only worn by Pharaohs. The oval surrounding their name was meant to protect them from evil spirits in life and after death.

22. Importance of Akhenaton and Nefertiti Religion and Social Change Change in stylistic treatment of figures

23. King Tutankhamen Son of Akhenaton and his sister wife Ruler in 18 th dynasty 1332 BC – 1323 BC