Classroom Visuals

    Themes and Topics
  1. Maps and Charts
  2. Egypt: Geography and History
  3. Nile River, Inundation and Irrigation
  4. Calendars and Chronology
  5. Cosmology and Cosmogonies
  6. Nature of Deity: Gods and Goddesses
  7. Nature of Kingship: King as Unifier, Maintaining Order
  8. Civil Temples and Temple Rituals
  9. Personal Religion and Personal Piety
  10. Funerary Religion
  11. Funerary Religion: Royal



MAPS AND CHARTS:

    The Near East:
  1. Map of the Ancient Near East (color)
  2. Map: Egyptian Empire at Its Height (Dynasty 18).
  3. Map: Floor of the Mediterranean Sea

    Egypt and the Nile Valley:
  1. Drawing: Phases of the Sahara Desert, 120,000 BC to Present (color)

  2. Map: The Nile River Basin (sources of the Nile inundation).
  3. Map: Ancient Nubia and Kush.

  4. Map of Egypt (color).
  5. Map of Egypt (black and white).

  6. Reconstruction: Egyptian world view (color)
  7. Reconstruction: Egyptian world view--with Egyptian place names (color)

  8. Satellite Photo: Nile Valley Looking South to North
  9. Satellite Photo: Nile Valley, View West to East
  10. Satellite Photo: Nile Valley and the Red Sea

  11. Map: Nile Delta: Ancient Coastline during the Old Kingdom
  12. Map: The Nile Delta (Middle Kingdom.
  13. Map: Nile Delta: 7 Branches of the Ancient Nile River

  14. Map: Nomes of Upper and Lower Egypt.
  15. Map: Nomes of the Delta (detail)

  16. Chart: Organization of Egyptian Society.


HISTORIOGRAPHY, GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY

  1. Chart: Sources and Approaches to the Study of Egyptian Culture

  2. Panoramic Photo: Western Thebes.
  3. Photo: Desert Edge in the Nile Valley at Medum.
  4. Composite Image: Overlay Plan of Ancient Memphis on Modern Mit Rahina (click image to toggle series).

  5. Drawing: Reconstruction, Ancient Memphis, aerial view (7th century BC)
  6. Drawing: Narmer Palette, Hierakonpolis.
  7. Photo: Statue of Queen Hatshepsut
  8. Photo: Statue of King Thutmose III
  9. Photos: Statues of King Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti


NILE RIVER, INUNDATION AND IRRIGATION

  1. Schematic Drawing: Nile Flood Plain, 3,500 B.C., Plan and Section (color)
  2. Animation: Nile River Inundation in Upper Egypt (hypothetical)
  3. Animation: Inundation of Flood Plain at Work
  4. Schematic Plan: Overview of Basin Irrigation System: basins and canals (color)
  5. Animation: Basin System at Work
  6. Reconstruction: Basin irrigation system--low water prior to inundation (color)
  7. Reconstruction: Basin irrigation system--opening the feeder canals (color)
  8. Reconstruction: Basin irrigation system--high water level (color)

  9. Aerial Photo: Nile Inundation at Giza
  10. Photo: Nile Inundation near Giza Pyramids
  11. Aerial Photo: Nile Inundation at Dahshur (with island-village)

  12. Photo: Modern Irrigation Canal, Western Thebes (Qurnah)
  13. Photo: Riverbank Village, Nile Levee, Upper Egypt
  14. Photo: Riparian Lands and Fields, High Water (Summer),

  15. Photo: Nile River, High Water (Summer), Luxor West Bank (facing south)
  16. Photo: Low Nile River: Emerging Riverbed and Sandbanks.
  17. Photo: Nile River, Low Water (Winter) (Upper Egypt, facing northwest)
  18. Sequential Series: Colossi of Memnon at Inundation and Reconstruction of Temple of Amenhotep III, Kom el-Hetan, Western Thebes (Qurnah)
  19. Photo: Nile River, First Cataract, South of Aswan (color)
  20. Panoramic Photo: Nile River, Second Cataract and Environs, AD 1890 (colorized)

  21. Photo: Irrigation scene with shaduf: tomb of Ipuy (W. Thebes)
  22. Photo and Drawing: Comparison of ancient and modern shadufs, AD 1890 and tomb of Ipuy (14th century BC)


CALENDARS AND CHRONOLOGY

  1. Drawing: Astronomical Ceiling, Tomb of Senenmut (ca. 1488 BC)
  2. Drawing: Ceiling Detail: Constellation Orion and Star Sirius
  3. Photo: Constellation Orion and Star Sirius in the Southern Sky (click on image to animate labels)
  4. Photo-montage: Orion-Sah and Sirius-Sopdet in the Southern Sky

  5. 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).

  6. Animation: Lunar Calendar with Concurrent Rotating Solar (Civil) Calendar (Fixed Agricultural Seasons + Moving Civil Seasons)
  7. Egyptian Solar (Civil) Calendar: Seasons, Months and Days
  8. Chart: New Kingdom Regnal Year Dating (Issues)
  9. Chart: Rate of Daily Slippage between Egyptian Solar Calendar (365 days) and Lunar Calendar (av. 354 days)
  10. Chart: The Sothic Cycle Resulting from Daily Slippage between Solar Year (365 days) and Sidereal (Natural) Year (365.25 days)
  11. Chart: Concordance of Calendars: Gregorian and Egyptian Civil Years, 01/01/2012 - 12/31/2017


COSMOLOGY AND COSMOGONIES

  1. Drawing: Egyptian View of Physical World (plan).
  2. Drawing: Egyptian View of Heaven and Earth (profile).
  3. Chart: Heliopolis Cosmogony, the Generations of Ra (Atum) = the Ennead of Heliopolis.
  4. Photo: White Chapel of Sesostris I, Karnak Temple
  5. Photo and Text: White Chapel of Sesostris I and Text of Ideal the Nile inundation


NATURE OF DEITY: GODS AND GODDESSES

  1. Photo: Statue of Hapy-figures: the Bounteous Nile.
  2. Photo: Hapy-figures Uniting Upper and Lower Egypt, Statue of Ramesses II (Luxor Temple).
  3. Photo: Sun-god Ra Depicted Sailing in the Day-bark [mandjet] (wall painting, tomb of Sennefer, Deir el-Medina).
  4. Photo: Khepri, the Sacred Scarab Beetle.
  5. Photo: Statue of Ptah (Tutankhamun as Ptah), Cairo Museum.
  6. Photo: Head of Tutankhamun as Nefertem (Cairo Museum).
  7. Photo-montage: Gold Statuette of Amun, 3rd Intermediate Period (Metropolitan Museum).
  8. Photo: Statue of Amun-Kamutef (ithyphallic Amun/Min-Amun), Late Period (British Museum).
  9. Photo-montage: Goddess Ma'at.
  10. Photo: God Bes (jar, Late Period).
  11. Photo: Statue of a Ba (1st century B.C.).


NATURE OF KINGSHIP: KING AS UNIFIER, MAINTAINING ORDER

  1. Chart: Organization of Egyptian Society.
  2. Kinglist at Abydos.
  3. Kinglist at Abydos.
  4. Photo: Head of Tutankhamun as Nefertem (Cairo Museum).
  5. Drawing: King Sesostris I as Symbolic Unifier.
  6. Drawing: Name of Thutmose I Centering and Balancing Hieroglyphic Decration.
  7. Photo: Falcon-Statue of Horus, Edfu Temple.
  8. Photo: Edfu Drama, "Victory of Horus": Horus and King Ptolemy IX (Exhortation to Horus; Pharaoh Attacks Seth).
  9. Photo: Colossal Statue of King Ramesses II, Seated, Luxor Temple.
  10. Photo: Hatshepsut Running with Apis Bull. Limestone Block, Karnak Temple, Bark Shrine.
  11. Photo: Stela of Ramesses II Offering to Re-Horakhty-Atum, from Athribis (marginal text of Merneptah), Cairo Museum.
  12. Montage: Ma'at and the King.
  13. Drawing: Narmer Palette, Hierakonpolis.
  14. Drawing: King Triumphant in Battle (Ramesses II at Kadesh).


CIVIL TEMPLES AND TEMPLE RITUALS

  1. Reconstruction: City of Thebes with Temples of Karnak and Luxor.
  2. Reconstruction and Elevation: Cut-away View of a Generic New Kingdom Temple.
  3. Photo: Civil Temple of Amun-Kamutef at Luxor (pylon and avenue of sphinxes).
  4. Reconstruction: Civil Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak.
  5. Photo: Civil Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, First Pylon (entry gate).
  6. Photo: Civil Temple of Amun-Ra, First Court.
  7. Photo: Civil Temple of Amun-Ra, King of the Gods, at Karnak, Thebes.
  8. Ground Plan: Civil Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak.
  9. Reconstruction: Great Bark of Amun-Ra from the Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak.
  10. Drawing: Carrying the Portable Bark-Shrine of Amun-Ra in Procession (from Karnak temple sanctuary).
  11. Photo: Reconstructed Portable Bark-Shrine (modern), Edfu Temple.
  12. Photo: Temple of Horus at Edfu, Entrance Pylon.
  13. Photo: Temple of Horus at Edfu, First Court.


PERSONAL RELIGION AND PERSONAL PIETY

  1. Photo: Statue of Djedhor [cippus] (Louvre).
  2. Photo: Stela of Senu (Metropolitan Museum of Art).
  3. Photo: Statue Holding Stela of Queen Merytre Hatshepsut [wife of Thutmose III] (Cairo Museum).
  4. Photo: Stela of Neferabet (front and back sides) with Prayer to Ptah (British Museum).


FUNERARY RELIGION

  1. Reconstruction: Private Tombs at North Saqqara, New Kingdom.
  2. Reconstruction: Tombs of the Tomb-builders at Deir el-Medina (the "Place of Truth").
  3. Drawing: Ba flying down tomb shaft to unite with mummy.
  4. Photo: The Proskynesis. Weighing of the Heart in the Hall of Judgement (Book of the Dead, Papyrus of Any, British Museum).
  5. Reconstructed Drawing: Proskynesis. Weighing of the Heart (Book of the Dead, Papyrus of Khonsu-mes).
  6. Reconstructed Drawing: Anubis at the Embalming with Isis and Nephthys (Book of the Dead, Papyrus of Khonsu-mes).
  7. Photo: Statue of Anubis on Shrine, Tomb of Tutankhamun (Cairo Museum).
  8. Photo: Wall Scene from Tomb of Sennedjem at Deir el-Medina. Ploughing the Heavenly Fields (Book of the Dead).
  9. Photo: Letter to the Dead Inscribed on Jar (Oriental Institute Museum).
  10. Drawing: Letter to the Dead Text Inscribed on Bowl.
  11. Photo: Funerary Headrest, Alabaster (calcite).
  12. Photo: Heart Scarab.
  13. Photo: Ushabties, Non-royal (New Kingdom). Sennedjem. Khabekhnet, Ken-her-khepeshef (British Museum).


FUNERARY RELIGION: ROYAL

    Architecture
    1. Reconstruction: Mastaba of King Djet at Saqqara (Dynasty 1).
    2. Drawing: Section of Step Pyramid of King Djoser, Saqqara, Dynasty 3: detailing five phases in building program leading from mastaba to step pyramid
    3. Photo: Pyramid of King Khufu (Cheops) at Giza (photo by Francis Frith)
    4. Drawing: Reconstruction of pyramid and pyramid temple of King Sahure, Abu Sir (Dyn. 5)
    5. Photo: Pyramid of King Unas, Saqqara (Dyn. 5): Burial Chamber Walls with Pyramid Texts
    6. Photo: Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari.
    7. Reconstruction: Mortuary Temples of Hatshepsut and Nebhepetre Mentuhotep at Deir el-Bahari.
    8. Photo: Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III, Medinet Habu, Western Thebes.
    9. Photo: Tomb of Ramesses III, Valley of the Kings, Sloping Corridor (Ra-setjau).
    Objects
    1. Photo: Votive Statue of Tutankhamun's Mummy on Bier with Ba [and Ka?] (Cairo Museum).
    2. Photo: Headrest of Tutankhamun: Nun Lifting [alt., Shu] (Cairo Museum).
    3. Photo: Statue of Selket Guarding Canopic Shrine, Tutankhamun's Tomb (Cairo Museum).
    4. Photo: Coffin of Horemheb (red quartzite), Valley of the Kings (detail: Selket guarding the corner).
    5. Photo: Coffin of Amenhotep II (red quartzite), Valley of the Kings (detail: Isis).
    6. Photo: Ushabties, Royal, New Kingdom: Taharqa and Sety I (British Museum).
    7. Photo: Mummy of Ramesses II (Cairo Museum).
    Wall Scenes and Representations
    1. Photo: Pyramid Texts, Pyramid of Unas, Burial Chamber-east wall (Utterances 219-221).

    2. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 1st Hour: Entry (detail).
    3. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 4th Hour (full).
    4. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 4th Hour (detail).
    5. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 4th Hour (detail).
    6. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 4th Hour (detail).
    7. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 5th Hour (full).
    8. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 5th Hour (detail).
    9. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 6th Hour (full).
    10. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 6th Hour (detail).
    11. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 7th Hour (full).
    12. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 7th Hour (detail).
    13. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 7th Hour (detail).
    14. Reconstructed Drawing: Seth Spearing Apophis, Book of Amduat, 7th Hour, Papyrus of Her-weben [B] (Cairo Museum).
    15. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 8th Hour (full).
    16. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 9th Hour (full).
    17. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 10th Hour (full).
    18. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 11th Hour (full).
    19. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 11th Hour (detail).
    20. Reconstructed Drawing: Ra Emerging from a Winged Snake (papyrus), Book of Amduat, 11th Hour.
    21. Drawing: Book of Amduat (What is in the Netherworld), 12th Hour (full).

    22. Photo/Drawing: Ra and Osiris United in One Body (tomb of Nefertari, Valley of the Queens).
    23. Drawing: Book of Gates, 9th Division (detail: Spearers of Apophis).
    24. Drawing: Book of Gates, 10th Division (detail: Binding the Issue of Apophis).
    25. 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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