History 670.090

Working list: Classroom Visuals

    Themes and Topics
  1. Maps of Egypt and Nubia
  2. Land, Environment and Irrigation
  3. Nile River and Inundation
  4. Historiography and Methods
  5. Creation Mythologies and Cosmologies
  6. Calendars and Chronology
  7. Egyptian Society and Social Structure
  8. Egyptian History: Predynastic and Archaic Periods
  9. Egyptian History: Old Kingdom and 1st Intermediate Period
  10. Egyptian History: Middle Kingdom and 2nd Intermediate Period
  11. New Kingdom: Dynasty 18
  12. New Kingdom: Amarna Period and Following
  13. New Kingdom: Dynasty 19
  14. New Kingdom: Dynasty 20
  15. Post-New Kingdom



MAPS OF EGYPT AND NUBIA

    Egypt
  1. Relief Map of Ancient Egypt and Western Asia
  2. Map of the Ancient Near East (color)
  3. Map of Egypt (color)
  4. Map of Egypt (black & white--for printing)
  5. Map of Modern Egypt (CIA)

  6. Map: Nile Delta in the Middle Kingdom
  7. Map: Nile Delta: 7 Branches of the Ancient Nile River
  8. Map: Nile Delta: Ancient Coastline during the Old Kingdom

  9. Map: The Nile River Basin (sources of the Nile inundation)
  10. Map: Comparative Areas, Egypt and the U.S.
  11. Map: Floor of the Mediterranean Sea

  12. Reconstruction: Egyptian world view (color)
  13. Reconstruction: Egyptian world view--with Egyptian place names (color)

  14. Map: The nomes of Upper and Lower Egypt (b/w) Nome boundaries conjectured and standardized.
  15. Map: The nomes of the Delta (Lower Egypt) Exact nome boundaries unclear.
  16. Map: The nomes of Upper Egypt (color) Nome boundaries conjectured and standardized.

  17. Map: Egyptian Empire, New Kingdom
  18. Map: Invasion routes of the Sea People through the Near East
  19. Satellite Map and Overlay: Luxor-Farshut Desert Roads Network

    Nubia
  1. Map: Ancient Nubia
  2. Map: Second Cataract Region: The Forts of Amenemhat I
  3. Map: Second Cataract Region: The Forts of Sesostris III
  4. Map: Second Intermediate Period Political Kingdoms along the Nile River



LAND, ENVIRONMENT AND IRRIGATION

  1. Drawing: Phases of the Sahara Desert, 120,000 BC to Present (color)
  2. Photo: Views of the Nile Delta from Space
  3. Photo: Red Sea, Beach at Quseir (and excavations)

  4. Drawing: Topographical Cross-section of the Nile Valley (color)
  5. Schematic Drawing: Nile Flood Plain, 3,500 B.C., Plan and Section (color)

  6. Photo: Partially Collapsed Pyramid of Medum (and the Edge of the Cultivation)
  7. Photo: Middle Egypt Lush Oasis

  8. Photo (Quicktime): West Bank of Thebes
  9. Photo: Panorama of West Bank of Thebes
  10. Photo: Wadi Hammamat, Eastern Desert

  11. Photo: Sadd el-Kafara Dam in Wadi Garawi, View to Northwest and North Wing, Upstream Side
  12. Photo: Sadd el-Kafara Dam, View Down Wadi and North Wing

  13. Photo: Modern Irrigation Canal, Western Thebes (Qurnah)
  14. Schematic Plan: Overview of Basin Irrigation System: basins and canals (color)
  15. Reconstruction: Basin irrigation system--low water prior to inundation (color)
  16. Reconstruction: Basin irrigation system--opening the feeder canals (color)
  17. Reconstruction: Basin irrigation system--high water level (color)
  18. Animation: Basin System at Work (P. Piccione)
  19. Photo: Irrigation scene with shaduf: tomb of Ipuy (W. Thebes)

  20. Drawing: Reconstruction of Ancient Memphis, aerial view (7th century BC)
  21. Satellite Photo: Modern Luxor and WesternThebes
  22. Drawing: Reconstruction of Ancient Thebes, aerial view (6th century BC)
  23. Plan: Alexandria, Ancient and Modern (overlay)
  24. Drawing: Reconstruction of Pharos Lighthouse

  25. Photo and Drawing: Comparison of ancient and modern shadufs, AD 1890 and tomb of Ipuy (14th century BC)

  26. Composite Aerial Photo: Comparison of Khufu's Great Pyramid and College of Charleston campus
  27. Composite Aerial Photo: Comparison of Karnak Temple and College of Charleston campus
  28. Composite Aerial Photo: Comparison of the Fort of Buhen and College of Charleston campus



NILE RIVER AND INUNDATION

  1. Aerial Photo: Nile Inundation at Giza
  2. Photo: Nile Inundation near Giza Pyramids
  3. Aerial Photo: Nile Inundation at Dahshur (with island-village)

  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

  6. Photo: Riverbank Village, Nile Levee, Upper Egypt
  7. Photo: Riparian Lands and Fields, High Water (Summer),

  8. Photo: Nile River, High Water (Summer), Luxor West Bank (facing south)
  9. Photo: Nile River, Low Water (Winter) (Upper Egypt, facing northwest)
  10. Photo: Colossi of Memnon during Inundation, Western Thebes (Qurnah)
  11. Photo: Nile River, First Cataract, South of Aswan (color)
  12. Panoramic Photo: Nile River, Second Cataract and Environs, AD 1890 (b/w)



HISTORIOGRAPHY AND METHODS

  1. Sources and Approaches to the Study of Egyptian Culture
  2. Web Page: The Napoleonic Expedition 1798-1799, Linda Hall Library exhibition



CREATION MYTHOLOGIES AND COSMOLOGIES

  1. Chart: Egyptian Cosmogony of Heliopolis
  2. Photo (composite): Shabaka Stone: Memphite Theology
  3. Photo: Wall Painting of Ra in boat (tomb of Sennedjem)
  4. Photo: Statuette of Tutankhamun as Nefertem
  5. Photo: Statuette of Ptah (Tutankhamun)
  6. Drawing: Egyptian Conception of Cosmos (plan)
  7. Drawing from papyrus: Shu (air) Separates Geb (earth) from Nut (sky)
  8. Drawing: Schematic Conception of Heaven, Earth and Netherworld (elevation)



CALENDARS AND CHRONOLOGY

  1. Drawing: Lunar Calendar with Concurrent Rotating Civil (Solar) Calendar (animation)
  2. Egyptian Solar (Civil) Calendar: Seasons, Months and Days
  3. Chart: New Kingdom Regnal Year Dating (Issues)
  4. Chart: Rate of Daily Slippage between Egyptian Solar Calendar (365 days) and Lunar Calendar (av. 354 days)
  5. Chart: Comparison of Months of the Solar and Lunar Calendars with Coptic Month-names
  6. Chart: The Sothic Cycle Resulting from Daily Slippage between Solar Year (365 days) and Sidereal (Natural) Year (365.25 days)



EGYPTIAN SOCIETY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE

  1. Graph: Population of the Nile Valley, 5000 BC - AD 1000 (hypothetical)
  2. Chart: Hypothetical Demographic Development in Ancient Egypt (by Region), 4000 BC - 150 BC
  3. Diagram: Structure of Egyptian society: King as focus of society, around whom orbit the social classes
  4. Chart: The Mes (Mose) Family Tree (from the "Inscription of Mes (Mose)")



EGYPTIAN HISTORY: PREDYNASTIC AND ARCHAIC PERIODS

  1. Photo: Abydos, Tomb U-j, Horus Scorpion (Naqada IId/IIIa)(
  2. Drawing: Ivory Knife-handle, Gebel el-Arak, Egypt. Mesopotamian motives: master of animals (= Sumerian en) and preying animals, and Mesopotamian-like ships with upraised prows and sterns
  3. Drawing: Ivory Knife-handle, Gebel el-Tarif, Egypt. Mesopotamian motives: entwined serpents, rosettes, winged griffin, and preying animals
  4. Drawing: Scorpion Macehead, Hierakonpolis. Relief depicting King Scorpion of Hierakonpolis (Dynasty 0) in the ritual of cutting open a dike or canal; dead rekhyt-birds on standards represent defeated people of the Delta-region.
  5. Drawing: Narmer Palette, Hierakonpolis. Left side depicts Narmer as King of Upper Egypt performing the ritual execution of a Lower Egyptian captive. The right side depicts him as King of Lower Egypt inspecting ten decapitated corpses.
  6. Drawing: Reconstruction of mastaba of King Djet, Saqqara, Dynasty 1
  7. Photo: Funerary Enclosure of Khasekhemwy, Hierakonpolis (Dynasty 2)
  8. Photo: Funerary Enclosure of Khasekhemwy, Hierakonpolis, detail of niched-brick panelled facade
  9. Photo: Funerary Enclosure of Khasekhemwy, Abydos (Dynasty 2)
  10. Photo: Boat-graves of Khasekhemwy, Abydos (Dynasty 2)



EGYPTIAN HISTORY: OLD KINGDOM AND 1ST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD

  1. Drawing: 3-D Reconstruction of simplified Old Kingdom mastaba (color)
  2. Drawing: Evolution of Pyramid Architecture from mastaba through step pyramid to true pyramid (Dynasties 1-4)

  3. Plan: Step Pyramid Complex of King Djoser, Saqqara, Dynasty 3
  4. Photo: Satellite Photograph of Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser
  5. Photo: Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser, enclosure wall and main entrance
  6. Animation: Step Pyramid of King Djoser, Saqqara, Dynasty 3: five building from simple mastaba to step pyramid (color)
  7. Drawing: Section of Step Pyramid of King Djoser with five building phases (color)

  8. Photo: Partially Collapsed Pyramid of Medum
  9. Photo: Pyramid of Huni at Medum
  10. Drawing: Section of Pyramid of Huni at Medum, Dynasty 3-4: detailing alteration from step pyramid to true pyramid (b/w)
  11. Photo: Bent Pyramid of Snefru at Dahshur, Dynasty 4

  12. Photo: Statuette of King Khufu (Louvre)
  13. Photo: Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) at Giza (photo by Francis Frith)
  14. Composite Aerial Photo: Comparison of Khufu's Great Pyramid and College of Charleston campus
  15. Photo: Giza, Pyramids of Khufu's Queens and Boat-graves
  16. Photo: Giza, mastabas of the Old Kingdom (from top of Khufu's pyramid)
  17. Photo: Giza, Pyramid of Khafre and mortuary temple (from top of Khufu's pyramid)

  18. Drawing: Reconstruction of the Pyramids of Abu Sir, Dynasty 5 (color)
  19. Drawing: Reconstruction of the sun-temple of King Neuserre at Abu Ghurob (Dynasty 5) with benben as cult-focus (color)

  20. Drawing: 3-D Reconstruction of pyramid and pyramid temple of King Unas, Saqqara, Dynasty 5 (color)
  21. Photo: Satellite Photograph of Pyramid Complex of Unas



EGYPTIAN HISTORY: MIDDLE KINGDOM, NUBIA, AND 2ND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD

  1. Photo: Mortuary temples of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari (Dynasty 11, Western Thebes)
  2. Plan and reconstruction of the mortuary temple and tomb of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II at Deir el-Bahari (Dynasty 11, Western Thebes)
  3. Photo: Statue of Deified King Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II (Deir el-Bahari temple and tomb)

  4. Photo: Statue of King Amenemhat (Karnak temple)
  5. Photo: Statue of Sesostris I (MMA-New York)
  6. Photo: Statuary of Sesostris III

  7. Photo: Model of Nubian Archers Marching (Madjay (Cairo Museum)
  8. Map: Nubia, Second Cataract Region: The Forts of Amenemhat I
  9. Plan: Nubia, Fort of Buhen
  10. Composite Aerial Photo: Comparison of the Fort of Buhen and College of Charleston campus
  11. Photo: Nubia, Ruins of Fort of Buhen (colorized)
  12. Map: Nubia, Second Cataract Region: The Forts of Sesostris III
  13. Drawing: Nubia, Semna and Kumma Forts (Nubia)
  14. Drawing: Nubia, Plan and Reconstruction, Fort of Shalfak

  15. Map: Second Intermediate Period Political Kingdoms along the Nile River
  16. Photo: head of the mummy of King Seqenenre Tao II (Thebes, Dyn. 17)
  17. Photo: Second Stela of Kamose (Dyn. 17)



NEW KINGDOM: DYNASTY 18

  1. Photo: Statuette of Queen Ahmes-Nefertari
  2. Genealogical Chart: 18th Dynasty Royal Family (color)
  3. Photo: Statue of Amenhotep I
  4. Photo: Statue of Queen Ahmes Meritamun (British Museum)

  5. Photo: Statue of Thutmose I
  6. Drawing: Relief of Queen Ahmes, Mother of Hatshepsut (drawn by Howard Carter, Temple of Deir el-Bahari)

  7. Photo: Seated Statue of Queen Hatshepsut
  8. Photo: Obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut, decorated pyramidion, Karnak Temple
  9. Photo: Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Western Thebes
  10. Drawing: Reconstruction of Temples of Deir el-Bahari, Western Thebes

  11. Photo: Statue of Thutmose III
  12. Photo: Statue of Thutmose III (close-up)

  13. Map: Egyptian Empire, New Kingdom
  14. Photo: Statue of Amenhotep II
  15. Photo: Statue of Thutmose IV

  16. Plan: Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak
  17. Drawing: Reconstruction of Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak (color)
  18. Composite Aerial Photo: Comparison of Karnak Temple and College of Charleston campus
  19. Photo: First Pylon-gateway of the Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak
  20. Photo: Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak from above First Court
  21. Photo: Columns of the Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak
  22. Photo: Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak from Sacred Lake

  23. Photo: Gold Cult-statue of of Amun-Ra, King of the Gods
  24. Drawing: Procession of the Portable Bark-shrine of Amun-Ra, Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, Dyn. 30 (wall relief, sanctuary facade)

  25. Photo: Pylons and Entrance of Luxor Temple (Temple of Amun-Kamutef)
  26. Drawing: Reconstruction of Luxor Temple

  27. Drawing: Captured Peoples of the Egyptian Empire (personification of the "Nine Bows"-enemies), from the throne dais of Amenhotep III
  28. Photo: Nubians Bringing Tribute to Egypt (tomb of Sebekhotep)
  29. Photo: Egyptianized Nubian Princess and Retinue Come in Homage to King Tutankhamun (tomb of Huy)
  30. Photo: Wall Scene of Nubian Princes and Princesses Bringing Tribute to Tutankhamun (tomb of Huy)
  31. Chart: The Mes (Mose) Family Tree (from the "Inscription of Mes (Mose)")



NEW KINGDOM: AMARNA PERIOD AND FOLLOWING

  1. Photo: Colossi of Memnon: Monumental statues of Amenhotep III, Qurnah, Western Thebes (during inundation pre-1962)
  2. Photos: Stela of Amenhotep III (old) vs. Statue of Deified Amenhotep III Rejuvenated
  3. Photo: Statue of Cult Image of Deified Amenhotep III (red quartzite), the "Dazzling Aten of All Lands" (Luxor Museum)

  4. Photos: Statues of Akhenaten and Nefertiti (Cairo Museum and Louvre)
  5. Photo: Carved Relief, Akhenaten and Nefertiti Offering Water Jars to the Aten, Followed by Daughter
  6. Photos: Depictions of the Goddess Ma'at, "Truth"

  7. Photo: Decorated Talatat-blocks from the Temple of the Aten at Karnak, disassembled and mixed
  8. Photo: Decorated Talatat-blocks from the Temple of the Aten at Karnak, reconstructed and assembled
  9. Photo: Decorated Talatat-blocks from the Temple of the Aten at Karnak: preparing food offerings, making beer
  10. Photo: Amarna Tablet no. 365: Letter of Biridiya, Prince of Megiddo, to the King of Egypt (expressing loyalty and cooperation)

  11. Photo: Statuette of King Tutankhamun as the God Nefertem (Cairo Museum)
  12. Photo: Wall Scene of Tutankhamun Enthroned Receiving Nubian Vassals (tomb of Huy)
  13. Drawing: Reconstruction of the Tombs of Horemheb, Maya and Tiya at Saqqara



NEW KINGDOM: DYNASTY 19

  1. Photo: Mummy of Ramesses II (Cairo Museum)
  2. Drawing: Reconstruction of the City of Thebes (from South), reign of Ramesses II



NEW KINGDOM: DYNASTY 20

  1. Map: Invasion routes of the Sea People through the Near East
  2. Photo: Medinet Habu Temple pylon
  3. Drawing: Egyptian land battle against the Sea People in Canaan
  4. Photo: Relief of Egyptian naval battle against Sea People (Medinet Habu)
  5. Drawing: Detail of Pelest Warriors (Philistines), Naval battle against the Sea People (Medinet Habu)
  6. Drawing: Relief of Egyptian naval battle against Sea People (Medinet Habu)



EGYPTIAN HISTORY: POST-NEW KINGDOM

  1. Photo: Stela of Shabako, Memphite Theology (British Museum)
  2. Photo: Ushabties of Kings Taharqa and Seti I (British Museum)


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