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Bell Ringer • What is Ancient Egyptian writing called?
Hieroglyphics • Record Keeping • History • Government • Business • Science • Literature • Images represent • Words • Sounds • Ideas
Rosetta Stone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8QM55OndJ8&feature=related
Literature • No “great” works known. • Many poems focus on love • Death literature
Pyramids • Tombs • Old and Middle Kingdom • 50,000 men & 20 to 30 years • Step Pyramids • Smooth Pyramids
Pyramids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUq--NJRPC8
Step Pyramids Sumerian Egyptian Incan Mayan
The Great Sphinx • 240 feet long • 66 feet high • Lion’s body with human head • Guardian of pyramids
Cubits • Grid system to standardize body measurements
Sculpture • Pharoah Mycerinus and Queen Kha-merer-nebty II • Old Kingdom
Sculpture • “Seated Scribe” • Old Kingdom • Painted Limestone
Sculpture • Queen Nefertiti • 20 inches high • Painted limestone
Proportion • Use of size to show status.
Funeral Mask • Tutankhamen • Only example that exists today