Dr. George DeRise Professor, Mathematics (retired) Thomas Nelson Community College

FALL 2017 CHRISTOPHER WREN ASSOCIATION COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY

THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS

WEEK 2

ANIMAL MUMMIES

MONICA

THE SERAPEUM MARIETTE 1851

APIS BULL

GREAT SPHINX PYRAMIDS OF GIZA c. 2589-2503 BC DYNASTY 4

KHAFRE AS SPHINX DYNASTY 4

KHEPHREN 2558-2533 BC

MARIETTE c. 1860

RAHOTEP NOFRET DYNASTY 4

MARIETTE EXCAVATIONS, 1871; MEIDUM

HESY-RA SHEIKH EL-BELED

DYNASTY 3 DYNASTY 5

PYRAMID OF UNAS DYNASTY 5 c. 2360BC

PYRAMID TEXTS c. 2350 B.C. MASPERO 1880 OVER 700 UTTERANCES

ANTE CHAMBER, WEST WALL AND NORTH WALL

TOMB OF MERERUKA DYNASTY 6, c. 2330

MERERUKA- SPEARING A HIPPO

MERERUKA AND HIS WIFE

TOMB OF MERERUKA

TOMB OF MERERUKA FROM SW - ENTRANCE

TOMB OF MERERUKA - SAQQARA

THE TITLES OF MERERUKA

ALABASTER JAR PEPI I DYNASTY 6. c. 2300 BALTIMORE

HAREM CONSPIRACY 1 (?) 6TH-DYNASTY KING PEPI I BIOGRAPHICAL INSCRIPTION TOMB OF AN OFFICIAL - WENI CEMETERY AT ABYDOS.

'WHEN A CASE WAS BROUGHT IN THE ROYAL HAREM AGAINST THE ROYAL WIFE WERETYAMTES IN SECRET, HIS PERSON [THE KING] ENSURED THAT I WENT DOWN TO HEAR IT ALONE. NO VIZIER NOR ANY OFFICIAL WERE THERE, BUT ONLY MYSELF …. I ALONE SERVED AS SCRIBE, ALONG WITH ONLY ONE OTHER CHIEF JUSTICE …

IT HAD NEVER HAPPENED THAT THE EQUIVALENT [OF ME] HEARD A SECRET OF THE ROYAL HAREM EVER BEFORE. BUT HIS PERSON [THE KING] ENSURED THAT I HEARD (IT) BECAUSE I WAS EXCELLENT IN THE HEART OF HIS PERSON, MORE THAN ANY OF HIS OFFICIALS, MORE THAN ANY OF HIS NOBLES AND MORE THAN ANY OF HIS SERVANTS'.

PEPY II AND HIS MOTHER DYNASTY 6 c.2250 BC BROOKLYN MUSEUM

FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD c. 2181-2055 BC

STELA OF MAATY and DEDWI 7TH DYNASTY - EARLY 11TH DYNASTY BROOKLYN MUSEUM

THE MAN WHO WAS TIRED OF LIFE MIDDLE KINGDOM PAPYRUS BERLIN 3024

PAPYRUS OF IPUWER (LEIDEN 344) RELATION TO EXODUS? IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY

2014 DOCUMENTARY: PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: EXODUS claimed the admonitions of Ipuwer was historical, an Egyptian view of the events given in the biblical Book of Exodus ALSO COMPANION BOOK DAVID ROHL, EXODUS: MYTH OR HISTORY?

MENTUHOTEP II Dynasty 11 2055-2004 BC

REUNIFICATION OF EGYPT MILITARY CAMPAIGNS NUBIA PALESTINE TEMPLE AT DEIR EL-BAHRI FOUNDER OF MIDDLE KINGDOM

AMENEMHAT I FIRST KING OF DYNASTY 12 c 1970BC

AMENEMHAT I, WHO IS THEORIZED TO BE “AMENY” IN “THE PROPHECIES OF NEFERTI”

HOW TO MAINTAIN HIS KINGSHIP AND PROSPERITY HE WARNS HIS SON SENWOSRET) NOT TO TRUST ANYONE EXPLAINS THAT HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY HIS GUARD WHILE HE WAS IN BED. ANOTHER CONSPIRACY?

LINTEL SESOSTRIS III JUBILEE FESTIVAL

DEIR EL-BERSHA NECROPOLIS MIDDLE EGYPT 1915 HARVARD-BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS EXPEDITION GEORGE ANDREW REISNER

October 2009 – June 2010

LADY DJEHUTYNAKHT DJEHUTYNAKHT

PROCESSION TO THE TOMB

PLOWING

FUNERARY BOAT c. 2000 BC

MUMMY HEAD OF DJEHUTYNAKHT

COFFIN OF DJEHUTY-NAKHT EARLY 12TH DYNASTY C. 2000 BC

COFFIN OF DJEHUTY-NAKHT EARLY 12TH DYNASTY C. 2000 BC