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http://www.bryanewert.net/africa-helx-heca/

A mastaba (early dynastic)

Step Pyramid of Djoser (Old Kingdom)

Worker’s tomb (New Kingdom)

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sudan_Meroe_Pyramids_30sep2005_2.jpg

Meroitic tombs (Nubia, 720 BCE-350 CE)

Giza pyramids and Sphinx (Old Kingdom)

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The Sphinx

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Animal mummies

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Ma’at: goddess of order, truth, justice

Thoth: god of wisdom, protector of scribes

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18th century pharmacy vial(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia)

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The heart

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Weighing of the heart

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The nemes

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The double crown (supposedly created in dynasty 1)

Senusret III (dynasty 12, Middle Kingdom, ca.1870-1831

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Hatshepsut’s coronation crown; dynasty 18

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/crownsofegypt.htm; http://s513.photobucket.com/user/Siyankan/media/Crowns/Khepresh.jpg.html

New Kingdom: 2-feathers (first used in:dynasty4), ram’s horns

Khepresh: blue war crown (New Kingdom)

Atef crown (Osiris); earliest use: dynasty 5

Amun crown (also double crown); first use: dynasty 11

Divine goddess crown (esp. Isis, Hathor)

13Slide courtesy of Colleen Manassa

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Demotic

Hieroglyphic (adj.)(n.: hieroglyph)

Coptic

Hieratic

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Papyrus

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Ostraca

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First pyramid texts(Old Kingdom, ca. 2345 BCE)

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Coffin texts (Middle Kingdom)

Photos are from the British Museum web site

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A “page” from a Book of the Dead(New Kingdom)

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/p/papyrus_from_the_book_of_the-5.aspx

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Artist’s view of Deir el-Medina

http://archaeology.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=archaeology&cdn=education&tm=28&f=00&su=p284.13.342.ip_&tt=8&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/ostraka/figured.html

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Narmer mace head

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Some Egyptian godsNAME SYMBOL FUNCTIONTawaret hippo goddess of pregnancy, childbirth

Ma’at feather goddess of order, justice, harmony, truth

Thoth ibis, baboon god of wisdom, scribes

Sobek crocodile sometimes creator god, sometimes destroyer

Apophis snake god of chaos, leader of evil spirits

Ra/Re solar god who nightly contends with Apophis

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Valley of the Kings

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Tomb models

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Shabti/Shawabti/Ushabti

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Hatshepsut (New Kingdom)

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Temple of Hatshepsut

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Akhenaten & Nefertiti

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Lahun village residentsGeneral labor• Peasants• Farmers• Herdsmen• Fishermen• Laborers• Builders• Craftsmen• Entertainers• Servants (but not slaves)• Captured foreigners• Marshland dwellers• Beggars

Higher status residents• Officials and overseers who

supervised the work• Priests and other personnel

employed in the king’s pyramid temple

• Doctors• Scribes• Tradesmen

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Tomb of a Deir el-Medina artisan

Tomb, about 16 ft long x 8 ft high and wide, shared with wife, children, grandchildren

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/sennedjemt.htm

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Tomb of an early Ramesside foreman or stone mason

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/pashedut.htm, http://xy2.org/lenka/Tomb3.html

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Playing cards (1819)

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King Tut’s tomb (Nov., 1922)

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Tut’s tomb

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What did Tutankhamen look like?

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1960s Batman TV series

Victor Buono as King Tut, a deranged professor of Egyptology at Yale University.

http://www.comicvine.com/king-tut/4005-58532/

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King Tut exhibition tour of US, 1977

http://clickamericana.com/eras/1970s/treasures-of-tutankhamun-exhibit-1977

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Saturday Night Live, 1970s

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/481446.Nefertiti

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“Tut’s Fever” (1986-88)(Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NYC)

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Boardwalk Empire (HBO, season 3, 2012)

Less than 2 months after the discovery of Tut’s tomb, the lead character throws an extravagant New Year’s Eve party with a Tut theme.