Classroom Visuals
Themes and Topics
- Maps and Charts
- Egypt: Geography and History
- Nile River, Inundation and Irrigation
- Calendars and Chronology
- Cosmology and Cosmogonies
- Nature of Deity: Gods and Goddesses
- Nature of Kingship: King as Unifier, Maintaining Order
- Civil Temples and Temple Rituals
- Personal Religion and Personal Piety
- Funerary Religion
- Funerary Religion: Royal
MAPS AND CHARTS:
The Near East:
- Map of the Ancient Near East (color)
- Map: Egyptian Empire at Its Height (Dynasty 18).
- Map: Floor of the Mediterranean Sea
Egypt and the Nile Valley:
- Drawing: Phases of the Sahara Desert, 120,000 BC to Present (color)
- Map: The Nile River Basin (sources of the Nile inundation).
- Map: Ancient Nubia and Kush.
- Map of Egypt (color).
- Map of Egypt (black and white).
- Reconstruction: Egyptian world view (color)
- Reconstruction: Egyptian world view--with Egyptian place names (color)
- Satellite Photo: Nile Valley Looking South to North
- Satellite Photo: Nile Valley, View West to East
- Satellite Photo: Nile Valley and the Red Sea
- Map: Nile Delta: Ancient Coastline during the Old Kingdom
- Map: The Nile Delta (Middle Kingdom.
- Map: Nile Delta: 7 Branches of the Ancient Nile River
- Map: Nomes of Upper and Lower Egypt.
- Map: Nomes of the Delta (detail)
- Chart: Organization of Egyptian Society.
HISTORIOGRAPHY, GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
- Chart: Sources and Approaches to the Study of Egyptian Culture
- Panoramic Photo: Western Thebes.
- Photo: Desert Edge in the Nile Valley at Medum.
- Composite Image: Overlay Plan of Ancient Memphis on Modern Mit Rahina (click image to toggle series).
- Drawing: Reconstruction, Ancient Memphis, aerial view (7th century BC)
- Drawing: Narmer Palette, Hierakonpolis.
- Photo: Statue of Queen Hatshepsut
- Photo: Statue of King Thutmose III
- Photos: Statues of King Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti
NILE RIVER, INUNDATION AND IRRIGATION
- Schematic Drawing: Nile Flood Plain, 3,500 B.C., Plan and Section (color)
- Animation: Nile River Inundation in Upper Egypt (hypothetical)
- Animation: Inundation of Flood Plain at Work
- Schematic Plan: Overview of Basin Irrigation System: basins and canals (color)
- Animation: Basin System at Work
- Reconstruction: Basin irrigation system--low water prior to inundation (color)
- Reconstruction: Basin irrigation system--opening the feeder canals (color)
- Reconstruction: Basin irrigation system--high water level (color)
- Aerial Photo: Nile Inundation at Giza
- Photo: Nile Inundation near Giza Pyramids
- Aerial Photo: Nile Inundation at Dahshur (with island-village)
- Photo: Modern Irrigation Canal, Western Thebes (Qurnah)
- Photo: Riverbank Village, Nile Levee, Upper Egypt
- Photo: Riparian Lands and Fields, High Water (Summer),
- Photo: Nile River, High Water (Summer), Luxor West Bank (facing south)
- Photo: Low Nile River: Emerging Riverbed and Sandbanks.
- Photo: Nile River, Low Water (Winter) (Upper Egypt, facing northwest)
- Sequential Series: Colossi of Memnon at Inundation and Reconstruction of Temple of Amenhotep III, Kom el-Hetan, Western Thebes (Qurnah)
- Photo: Nile River, First Cataract, South of Aswan (color)
- Panoramic Photo: Nile River, Second Cataract and Environs, AD 1890 (colorized)
- Photo: Irrigation scene with shaduf: tomb of Ipuy (W. Thebes)
- Photo and Drawing: Comparison of ancient and modern shadufs, AD 1890 and tomb of Ipuy (14th century BC)
CALENDARS AND CHRONOLOGY
- Drawing: Astronomical Ceiling, Tomb of Senenmut (ca. 1488 BC)
- Drawing: Ceiling Detail: Constellation Orion and Star Sirius
- Photo: Constellation Orion and Star Sirius in the Southern Sky (click on image to animate labels)
- Photo-montage: Orion-Sah and Sirius-Sopdet in the Southern Sky
- Animation: Demonstration of Heliacal Rising of Sothis/Sirius (Peret Sopdet), Memphis, July 6, 1991 BC, 4:50 am UT (= 6:55 am standard local time). Extracted from Sky View Café (skyviewcafe.com).
- Animation: Lunar Calendar with Concurrent Rotating Solar (Civil) Calendar (Fixed Agricultural Seasons + Moving Civil Seasons)
- Egyptian Solar (Civil) Calendar: Seasons, Months and Days
- Chart: New Kingdom Regnal Year Dating (Issues)
- Chart: Rate of Daily Slippage between Egyptian Solar Calendar (365 days) and Lunar Calendar (av. 354 days)
- Chart: The Sothic Cycle Resulting from Daily Slippage between Solar Year (365 days) and Sidereal (Natural) Year (365.25 days)
- Chart: Concordance of Calendars: Gregorian and Egyptian Civil Years, 01/01/2012 - 12/31/2017
COSMOLOGY AND COSMOGONIES
- Drawing: Egyptian View of Physical World (plan).
- Drawing: Egyptian View of Heaven and Earth (profile).
- Chart: Heliopolis Cosmogony, the Generations of Ra (Atum) = the Ennead of Heliopolis.
- Photo: White Chapel of Sesostris I, Karnak Temple
- Photo and Text: White Chapel of Sesostris I and Text of Ideal the Nile inundation
NATURE OF DEITY: GODS AND GODDESSES
- Photo: Statue of Hapy-figures: the Bounteous Nile.
- Photo: Hapy-figures Uniting Upper and Lower Egypt, Statue of Ramesses II (Luxor Temple).
- Photo: Sun-god Ra Depicted Sailing in the Day-bark [mandjet] (wall painting, tomb of Sennefer, Deir el-Medina).
- Photo: Khepri, the Sacred Scarab Beetle.
- Photo: Statue of Ptah (Tutankhamun as Ptah), Cairo Museum.
- Photo: Head of Tutankhamun as Nefertem (Cairo Museum).
- Photo-montage: Gold Statuette of Amun, 3rd Intermediate Period (Metropolitan Museum).
- Photo: Statue of Amun-Kamutef (ithyphallic Amun/Min-Amun), Late Period (British Museum).
- Photo-montage: Goddess Ma'at.
- Photo: God Bes (jar, Late Period).
- Photo: Statue of a Ba (1st century B.C.).
NATURE OF KINGSHIP: KING AS UNIFIER, MAINTAINING ORDER
- Chart: Organization of Egyptian Society.
- Kinglist at Abydos.
- Kinglist at Abydos.
- Photo: Head of Tutankhamun as Nefertem (Cairo Museum).
- Drawing: King Sesostris I as Symbolic Unifier.
- Drawing: Name of Thutmose I Centering and Balancing Hieroglyphic Decration.
- Photo: Falcon-Statue of Horus, Edfu Temple.
- Photo: Edfu Drama, "Victory of Horus": Horus and King Ptolemy IX (Exhortation to Horus; Pharaoh Attacks Seth).
- Photo: Colossal Statue of King Ramesses II, Seated, Luxor Temple.
- Photo: Hatshepsut Running with Apis Bull. Limestone Block, Karnak Temple, Bark Shrine.
- Photo: Stela of Ramesses II Offering to Re-Horakhty-Atum, from Athribis (marginal text of Merneptah), Cairo Museum.
- Montage: Ma'at and the King.
- Drawing: Narmer Palette, Hierakonpolis.
- Drawing: King Triumphant in Battle (Ramesses II at Kadesh).
CIVIL TEMPLES AND TEMPLE RITUALS
- Reconstruction: City of Thebes with Temples of Karnak and Luxor.
- Reconstruction and Elevation: Cut-away View of a Generic New Kingdom Temple.
- Photo: Civil Temple of Amun-Kamutef at Luxor (pylon and avenue of sphinxes).
- Reconstruction: Civil Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak.
- Photo: Civil Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, First Pylon (entry gate).
- Photo: Civil Temple of Amun-Ra, First Court.
- Photo: Civil Temple of Amun-Ra, King of the Gods, at Karnak, Thebes.
- Ground Plan: Civil Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak.
- Reconstruction: Great Bark of Amun-Ra from the Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak.
- Drawing: Carrying the Portable Bark-Shrine of Amun-Ra in Procession (from Karnak temple sanctuary).
- Photo: Reconstructed Portable Bark-Shrine (modern), Edfu Temple.
- Photo: Temple of Horus at Edfu, Entrance Pylon.
- Photo: Temple of Horus at Edfu, First Court.
PERSONAL RELIGION AND PERSONAL PIETY
- Photo: Statue of Djedhor [cippus] (Louvre).
- Photo: Stela of Senu (Metropolitan Museum of Art).
- Photo: Statue Holding Stela of Queen Merytre Hatshepsut [wife of Thutmose III] (Cairo Museum).
- Photo: Stela of Neferabet (front and back sides) with Prayer to Ptah (British Museum).
FUNERARY RELIGION
- Reconstruction: Private Tombs at North Saqqara, New Kingdom.
- Reconstruction: Tombs of the Tomb-builders at Deir el-Medina (the "Place of Truth").
- Drawing: Ba flying down tomb shaft to unite with mummy.
- Photo: The Proskynesis. Weighing of the Heart in the Hall of Judgement (Book of the Dead, Papyrus of Any, British Museum).
- Reconstructed Drawing: Proskynesis. Weighing of the Heart (Book of the Dead, Papyrus of Khonsu-mes).
- Reconstructed Drawing: Anubis at the Embalming with Isis and Nephthys (Book of the Dead, Papyrus of Khonsu-mes).
- Photo: Statue of Anubis on Shrine, Tomb of Tutankhamun (Cairo Museum).
- Photo: Wall Scene from Tomb of Sennedjem at Deir el-Medina. Ploughing the Heavenly Fields (Book of the Dead).
- Photo: Letter to the Dead Inscribed on Jar (Oriental Institute Museum).
- Drawing: Letter to the Dead Text Inscribed on Bowl.
- Photo: Funerary Headrest, Alabaster (calcite).
- Photo: Heart Scarab.
- Photo: Ushabties, Non-royal (New Kingdom). Sennedjem. Khabekhnet, Ken-her-khepeshef (British Museum).
FUNERARY RELIGION: ROYAL
Architecture
- Reconstruction: Mastaba of King Djet at Saqqara (Dynasty 1).
- Drawing: Section of Step Pyramid of King Djoser, Saqqara, Dynasty 3: detailing five phases in building program leading from mastaba to step pyramid
- Photo: Pyramid of King Khufu (Cheops) at Giza (photo by Francis Frith)
- Drawing: Reconstruction of pyramid and pyramid temple of King Sahure, Abu Sir (Dyn. 5)
- Photo: Pyramid of King Unas, Saqqara (Dyn. 5): Burial Chamber Walls with Pyramid Texts
- Photo: Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari.
- Reconstruction: Mortuary Temples of Hatshepsut and Nebhepetre Mentuhotep at Deir el-Bahari.
- Photo: Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III, Medinet Habu, Western Thebes.
- Photo: Tomb of Ramesses III, Valley of the Kings, Sloping Corridor (Ra-setjau).
Objects
- Photo: Votive Statue of Tutankhamun's Mummy on Bier with Ba [and Ka?] (Cairo Museum).
- Photo: Headrest of Tutankhamun: Nun Lifting [alt., Shu] (Cairo Museum).
- Photo: Statue of Selket Guarding Canopic Shrine, Tutankhamun's Tomb (Cairo Museum).
- Photo: Coffin of Horemheb (red quartzite), Valley of the Kings (detail: Selket guarding the corner).
- Photo: Coffin of Amenhotep II (red quartzite), Valley of the Kings (detail: Isis).
- Photo: Ushabties, Royal, New Kingdom: Taharqa and Sety I (British Museum).
- Photo: Mummy of Ramesses II (Cairo Museum).
Wall Scenes and Representations
- Photo: Pyramid Texts, Pyramid of Unas, Burial Chamber-east wall (Utterances 219-221).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 1st Hour: Entry (detail).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 4th Hour (full).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 4th Hour (detail).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 4th Hour (detail).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 4th Hour (detail).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 5th Hour (full).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 5th Hour (detail).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 6th Hour (full).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 6th Hour (detail).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 7th Hour (full).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 7th Hour (detail).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 7th Hour (detail).
- Reconstructed Drawing: Seth Spearing Apophis, Book of Amduat, 7th Hour, Papyrus of Her-weben [B] (Cairo Museum).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 8th Hour (full).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 9th Hour (full).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 10th Hour (full).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 11th Hour (full).
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 11th Hour (detail).
- Reconstructed Drawing: Ra Emerging from a Winged Snake (papyrus), Book of Amduat, 11th Hour.
- Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 12th Hour (full).
- Photo/Drawing: Ra and Osiris United in One Body (tomb of Nefertari, Valley of the Queens).
- Drawing: Book of Gates, 9th Division (detail: Spearers of Apophis).
- Drawing: Book of Gates, 10th Division (detail: Binding the Issue of Apophis).
- Drawing: Raising the Bark of Ra out of the Netherworld, Book of Gates, 12th Division, Papyrus of Khonsu-mes (Bibliothèque Nationale).
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