Ancient Egypt The Archaic Period and Old Kingdom

Ancient Egypt The Archaic Period and Old Kingdom

Scenes from Harkhuf’s tomb at Qubbet el. Hawa (6 th Dyn)

Den braining an enemy; the inscription reads, "The first occasion of smiting the East“ Ivory label from Den’s tomb in Abydos (1 st Dyn); British Museum

Early dynastic tombs at Umm el-Qa'ab Subsidiary burials of the Tomb of Aha Tomb of Den Boat burials near the funerary enclosure of Khasekhemwy (2 d Dyn)

Palace façade, Djoser pyramid complex (2 d Dyn)

Map of Saqqara Tomb 3357

Djoser’s Step Pyramid complex (3 d Dyn) Detail of double throne platform

Two of Snofru’s pyramids: the Meidum Pyramid and the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur (4 th Dyn)

The pyramids of Giza: Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure (4 th Dyn)

The Khufu ship, 43. 6 m long, one of the boat pits (4 th Dyn), and a model by Claire. Richardson

The Sphinx and the Pyramid of Khafre

George Reisner’s excavation of Menkaure’s Valley Temple, February 9, 1910

Reisner’s plan of the valley temple Menkaura and his queen (Kamerernebty II? ), 142 cm high (4 th Dyn), Museum of Fine Arts

Abu Gurab: Nyuserre's sun temple, ruins and reconstructed view

Scenes from Harkhuf’s tomb at Qubbet el. Hawa (6 th Dyn)

Tombs at Qubbet el-Hawa (6 th Dyn)

Palaeolithic 700, 000 -7000 BCE Saharan Neolithic 8800 -4700 Early Middle Late 8800 -6800 6600 -5100 -4700 Predynastic Lower Egypt Neolithic Maadi Upper Egypt Badarian Naqada III 5300 -3000 5300 -4000 -3200 4400 -4000 -3500 (Amratian) 3500 -3200 (Gerzean) 3200 -3000 (Dynasty 0) 1 ST Persian Period (27 th-30 th) 2 d Persian Period Ptolemaic Period Macedonian 332 -310 Ptolemaic 305 -30 Roman 525 -404 343 -332 332 -30 30 BCE-642 CE