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Old, Middle, New "kingdoms" |
c. 2575-2150 BCE The Old Kingdom was a time of social and political stability, despite increasingly common military excursions to defend the borders. The growing wealth of ruling families of the period is reflected in the enormous and elaborate tomb complexes they commissioned for themselves. c. 1975-1640 BCE The Middle Kingdom first contained 150 years of political turmoil thenThe Middle Kingdom was another high point in Egyptian history. Arts and writing flourished in the Twelfth Dynasty (1938–1756 bce ), while reflecting a burgeoning awareness of the political upheaval from which the country had just emerged. c. 1539-1075 BCE The New Kingdom during the Second Intermediate period (1630–1520 BCE )—another turbulent interruption in the succession of dynasties ruling a unified Egypt—an eastern Mediterranean people called the Hyksos invaded Egypt’s northernmost regions. Finally, the kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty (c. 1539–1292 BCE ) regained control of the entire Nile region, extending from Nubia in the south to the Mediterranean Sea in the north, and restored political and economic strength. Roughly a century later, one of the same dynasty’s most dynamic kings, Thutmose III (r. 1479–1425 BCE ),extended Egypt’s influence along the eastern Mediterranean coast as far as the region of present-day Syria. |
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Mastaba |
a flat-topped, one-story building with slanted walls erected above an underground burial chamber. Mastabas were at first constructed of mud brick, but toward the end of the Third Dynasty (c. 2650–2575 BCE ), many incorporated cut stone, at least as an exterior facing. |
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stepped pyramid |
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pyramid |
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pharaoh |
a term literally meant as the great house used similarly to the white house. |
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convention |
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twisted perspective |
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hieroglyphs & cartouches |
used to represent the Egyptian language |
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sarcophagus |
a stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, and Greece. |
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pylon |
an upright structure that is used for support or for navigational guidance, in particular.a tower used for carrying power lines high above the ground. |
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hypostyle hall |
A large room with columns. Most of the room was dark except for the centre aisle which was lit by small windows cut into the roof. Thishall represented a marsh in the beginning of time. It was filled with columns that looked like papyrus plants. |
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the Nile river |
The Nile is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world but in 2007 this title was given to the Amazon river. It is 6,853 km long. |
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upper and lower Egypt |
referred to as The Two Lands is a name used for Ancient Egypt. The concept appears in titles of Egyptian Kings and Queens and appears in scenes in temples and tombs. The concept also refers to an innate sense of duality in the Ancient Egyptian culture |
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the valleys of the kings and queens |
a valley on the west bank of the Nile near the site of Thebes: the necropolis of many of the kings and queens of the 18th and 19th dynasties of ancient Egypt, c1350–c1200 b.c. Expand. Also called Valley of the Tombs. |
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amun |
a major Egyptian deity and Berber deity. He was attested since the Old Kingdom together with his spouse Amaunet. With the 11th dynasty ( c. 21st century BC), he rose to the position of patron deity of Thebes by replacing Monthu. |
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osiris |
the Egyptian god of the underworld and husband and brother of Isis. |
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isis |
a goddess of fertility, the sister and wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, and usually represented as a woman with a cow's horns with the solar disk between them: later worshiped in the Greek and Roman empires. Origin ofIsis Expand. |
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horus |
the falcon-headed Egyptian god of light and the son of Osiris and Isis. |
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narmer palette |
is a significant Egyptian archeological find, dating from about the 31st century BC. It contains some of the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions ever found. NEEDS MORE |
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pyramids of giza |
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Khafre (seated) |
a funerary statue of the Pharaoh Khafre, who reigned during the Fourth dynasty of ancient Egypt (c. 2570 BC). ... The statue was carved for the Pharaoh's valley temple near the Great Sphinx, a part of the necropolis (a funerary city) used in funeral rituals. |
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Menkaure & Queen |
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Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt |
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temple of amun at karnak |
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hatshepsut |
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akhenaten & family |
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ramses II and Abu Simbel |
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Queen Nefertari Making offering |
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Judgement of Hunefer before Osiris |
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