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Title: The Narmer Palette
Medium: Green schist
Size: height 25" (64 cm)
Date: Early Dynastic period, c. 2950–2775 BCE Source/Museum: Hierakonpolis
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The step pyramid and sham buildings. Funerary complex of Djoser, Saqqara
Medium: Limestone
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Title: Great Pyramids, Giza
Medium: Granite and limestone
Size: height of pyramid of Khufu, 450' (137 m)
Date: Fourth Dynasty, c. 2575–2450 BCE
Source/Museum: Erected by (from the left) Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu
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Model of the Giza plateau. From left to right: the temples and pyramids of Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu. (number 4 is the valley temple of Menkaure; number 5 is the valley temple and Sphinx of Khafre.)
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Khafre (Detail of head)
Giza- Valley Tempel of Khafre
2520 bce
Anorthosite gneiss
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Funerary mask of tutankhamun
1332 bce
gold w/ glass & semiprecious stones
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Valley of khafre
giza
2570 bce
limestone and ed granite
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Menkaure and queen
giza
2490 bce
graywacke w/ traces of paint
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Pepy II and motheer- queen ankhnes-meyre
2323 bce
egyptian alabaster
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Seated scribe
near tomb of kai
2450 bce
painted limestone, rock crystal eyes
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TI watching hippo hunt
tomb of TI
2450 bce
painted limestone
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Head of senusret III
1938 bce
yellow quartzite
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Rock-cut tombs
Beni Hasan
1938 bce
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Two men, soldier-like, standing in a line with sticks, looks unfinished
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Unfinished relief
tomb of horemheb
18th dynasty
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Pectoral of sensusret II
tomb of proncess Sithathoryunet
1938 bce
gold and semiprecious stones
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