3100-2200 BC

Anarchy-Divine Rule

Pottery- Paintings- Tools- Small Carvings

***Egyptian’s religious beliefs shaped

their artist style

Mastaba

- Step Pyramid of King Zoser - Imhotep architect

Started as a mastaba and enlarged 3 times

Three Great Pyramids

The Pyramid of Cheops

Giza-

911 feet

55 stories high

2,000,000 blocks of limestone

faced with shiny granite

Sphinx

Hieroglyphics Registers

Demotic

Hieroglyphs

Greek

Palette of King Narmer Frontal Style

Low Relief

Narmer’s Palette is approximately 2 ft tall

Mycerinus and his QueenDescriptive perspectiveCarved from a single block of slate

Block Sculpture of Kings (like Mycerinus and his Queen)Carried into the Middle Kingdom

Wooden Model Of Funerary Barge

Funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut

Akhenaton

Queen Nefertiti

KING TUT

HOWARD CARTERfound Tut’s tomb in 1922

Canopic Jars

Canopic jars were used by the Ancient Egyptians during the mummification process to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife. They were commonly either carved from limestone or were made of pottery.[1] These jars were used by Ancient Egyptians from the time of the Old Kingdom up until the time of the Late Period or the Ptolemaic Period, by which time the viscera were simply wrapped and placed with the body.[2] The viscera were not kept in a single canopic jar: each jar was reserved for specific organs. The name "canopic" reflects the mistaken association by early Egyptologists with the Greek legend of Canopus.[3] Canopic jars of the Old Kingdom were rarely inscribed, and had a plain lid. In the Middle Kingdom inscriptions became more usual, and the lids were often in the form of human heads. By the Nineteenth dynasty each of the four lids depicted one of the four sons of Horus, as guardians of the organs.