Egypt 3500 1000 B C Egyptian Timeline 3500

Egypt 3500 -1000 B. C.

Egyptian Timeline • 3500 -3100 - Predynastic Period • 3100 -2700 - Early Dynastic Period • 2700 -2100 - Old Kingdom • 2100 -1700 - Middle Kingdom • 1500 -1000 - New Kingdom

Old Kingdom • First pyramid built for King Zoser at Sakkara (2600 B. C. ) • Designed my Imhotep, the first known artist • First huge stone structure on Earth -made of 6 steps and over 20 stories tall

Old Kingdom The Great Pyramids

Old Kingdom The Great Pyramids at Giza • Took 100, 000’s of men to build • Stones weighed between 2 - 40 tons • Floated the stones up the Nile during flooding season and hauled to the edge of the desert • Used levers, rollers, rope, and ramps to construct the pyramids • The largest pyramid was built for Cheops and covers 13 acres, is 911 feet on each side of the base, 55 stories tall, took over 2 million blocks of limestone • The largest structure on Earth until skyscrapers 4500 years later

Old Kingdom The Great Pyramids at Giza

Old Kingdom The Great Pyramids at Giza • Guarded by the Great Sphinx • A statue 240 feet long, body of a lion, head of Chefren, a pharaoh one of the 3 pyramids was built for

New Kingdom • Most prosperous time in Egypt’s history • Temples were built as homes for gods and priests, not just pharaoh tombs • Arts flourished. Painting style changed from being stylistic to more realistic. • Ramses II had almost every temple rebuilt, redecorated, or expanded.

King Tutankhamen • Became king when he was 9 years old • Priests and military “guided” his decisions and were able to bring Egypt back to their old ways. • When he was 19 he was ruling on his own but died suddenly

-Tomb was discovered in 1922 - It hadn’t been touched in 3, 000 years - It took 10 years to empty everything out of it

Mummification

Egypt Questions • 1. Explain how the Nile River influenced the development of Egyptian culture. • 2. Who was Imhotep? What is his importance in art history? • 3. Why do we know so much about Egyptian society in art?