What You Will Learn about Ancient Egypt

In Module Three we will examine the Ancient Egyptian culture with a focus on the Predynastic, Early Dynastic, Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom and Amarna periods.

Learning Activities

The learning activities for this module include:

Introduction to Ancient Egypt

• READ: Ancient Egypt: An Introduction (10:00 minutes)
• READ: Egyptian Art (5:00 minutes)
• READ: Materials and Techniques Employed in Egyptian Art (10:00 minutes)
• READ: Egyptian Tombs: Life Along the Nile Heibrunn Timeline of Art History (10 minutes)

Predynastic Period

• READ: Predynastic: The Palette of Narmer (10:00 minutes)
• WATCH: Art History Abbreviated: Narmer (3:28 minutes)

Old Kingdom Period

• READ: Egypt in the Old Kingdom (ca. 2649–2130 B.C.): Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (10 minutes)
• READ: Old Kingdom: The Great Pyramids (5:00 minutes)
• READ: Old Kingdom: The Pyramid of Khufu (5:00 minutes)
• READ: Old Kingdom: The Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx (5:00 minutes)
• READ: Old Kingdom: Pyramid of Menkaure (5 minutes)
• READ: Old Kingdom: King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and Queen
  (10 minutes)
• WATCH: Old Kingdom: The Seated Scribe​, c. 2620-2500 B.C.E. (3:01 minutes)

Middle Kingdom

• READ: Egypt in the Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030–1650 B.C.): Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (10 minutes)
• READ: Middle Kingdom: Hippopotamus (5 minutes)

New Kingdom

• READ: Egypt in the New Kingdom (ca. 1550–1070 B.C.): Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (10 minutes)
• WATCH: New Kingdom: Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut and Large Kneeling Statue (7:37)
• WATCH: New Kingdom: Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis (UNESCO and TBS) (2:01 minutes)
• READ: New Kingdom: The tomb-chapel of Nebamun (5 minutes)
• READ: New Kingdom: Paintings from the Tomb-chapel of Nebamun (10 minutes)
• WATCH: New Kingdom: A 3D interactive animation of the tomb-chapel of Nebamun (10 minutes)
• READ: New Kingdom: A Bottle and a Toy: Objects from Daily Life (6:50 minutes)

New Kingdom, Amarna Phase

• READ: Art, Architecture, and the City in the Reign of Amenhotep IV / Akhenaten (ca. 1353–1336 B.C.) Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (10 minutes)
• WATCH: New Kingdom: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters
  (5 minutes)
• WATCH: New Kingdom : Portrait Head of Queen Tiye with a Crown of Two Feathers (3:16 minutes)
• WATCH: New Kingdom: Thutmose, Bust of Nefertiti (4 minutes)

New Kingdom after Amarna Phase

• READ: New Kingdom: Tutankhamun’s Tomb (Innermost Coffin and Death Mask)
   (8 minutes)
• READ: New Kingdom: Tutankhamun’s Funeral from Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (15 minutes)
• READ: New Kingdom: Head of Tutankhamun from the Amarna Period of Egypt’s New Kingdom (8 minutes)
• WATCH: New Kingdom: Last Judgement of Hunefer, from His Tomb (7:40 minutes)
• READ: New Kingdom: Temple of Amun-Re and the Hypostyle Hall, Karnak (10 minutes)

Ptolemaic

• READ: Ptolemaic: The Rosetta Stone (10 minutes)
• READ: Ptolemaic: History Uncovered in Conserving the Rosetta Stone (5 minutes)
• READ: Ptolemaic: Egyptian Mummy Portraits (5 minutes)
• WATCH: The Mummification Process (2:43 minutes)
• WATCH: Ancient Egyptian coffin prepared for the Book of the Dead exhibition at the British Museum (1:09 minutes)

Total: 4 hours and 10 minutes