ancient egypt the archaic period and old kingdom
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Ancient EgyptThe Archaic Period and Old Kingdom
Scenes from Harkhuf’s tomb at Qubbet el-Hawa (6th Dyn)
Den braining an enemy; the inscription reads, "The first occasion of smiting the East“Ivory label from Den’s tomb in Abydos (1st Dyn); British Museum
Early dynastic tombs at Umm el-Qa'abSubsidiary burials of the Tomb of AhaTomb of DenBoat burials near the funerary enclosure of Khasekhemwy (2d Dyn)
Palace façade, Djoser pyramid complex (2d Dyn)
Map of SaqqaraTomb 3357
Djoser’s Step Pyramid complex (3d Dyn)Detail of double throne platform
Two of Snofru’s pyramids: the Meidum Pyramid and the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur (4th Dyn)
The pyramids of Giza: Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure (4th Dyn)
The Khufu ship, 43.6 m long, one of the boat pits (4th Dyn), and a model by ClaireRichardson
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 (4th Dyn), Museum of Fine Arts
Abu Gurab: Nyuserre's sun temple, ruins and reconstructed view
Scenes from Harkhuf’s tomb at Qubbet el-Hawa (6th Dyn)
Tombs at Qubbet el-Hawa (6th Dyn)
Palaeolithic 700,000-7000 BCE
Saharan Neolithic 8800-4700Early 8800-6800Middle 6600-5100Late 5100-4700
Predynastic 5300-3000 Lower Egypt
Neolithic 5300-4000Maadi 4000-3200
Upper EgyptBadarian 4400-4000Naqada I 4000-3500 (Amratian)Naqada II 3500-3200 (Gerzean)Naqada III 3200-3000 (Dynasty 0)
1ST Persian Period (27th-30th) 525-4042d Persian Period 343-332Ptolemaic Period 332-30
Macedonian332-310Ptolemaic 305-30
Roman 30 BCE-642 CE