Transcript Grace Darling - LS

What Survived from
Ancient Egypt?
☺Cheops was
largest and first built.
Pyramids
☺Carved from 2.5
million limestone
blocks
The Pyramids
• The Pyramids were built as the spectacular
tombs of three of the Pharaohs of ancient
Egypt. The largest and the first to be built
was that of Cheops which was built between
2589 - 2566 BC. The pyramids are made of
limestone blocks and each one has about 2.5
million limestone blocks. They required
hundreds of thousands of workers to build
them.
Sphinx
Sphinx
• The Sphinx was carved from a single block
of limestone left over in the quarry used to
build the Pyramids. It has the body of a lion
and the face of a king or god. Scholars
believe it was carved about 4,600 years ago
for the pharaoh Khafre, whose Pyramid
rises directly behind it and whose face may
be that represented on the Sphinx.
☺This Painting
was carved by
limestone.
Pharaoh Painting
Tuthmoses IV
• This painting of the Pharaoh Tuthmoses IV
was carved from limestone and was found
inside his tomb.
Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone
• This is a slab of basalt (114x72x28 cm) that
was found in July 1799 in the small
Egyptian village Rosette (Raschid), which
is located in the western delta of the Nile.
Today the stone is kept at the British
Museum in London. It contains three
inscriptions that represent a single text in
three different types of script.
Jewellery
Jewellery
• This jewellery belonged to a princess and
was placed in her tomb with her body. It is
made of gold, turquoise and other semiprecious stones.
Canopic Jars
Canopic Jars
• These Canopic jars were carved from
limestone and held the internal organs
removed from the body prior to
mummification. These jars were then placed
in the tomb with the mummy.
Scribe Statue
Scribe Statue
• This statue of a scribe (or writer) was
carved from limestone and represented the
small percentage of people who were able
to read and write. Originally the statue had a
reed pen in his right hand which is now lost.
Scarab
Scarab Charm
• This scarab charm was carved from red
granite and was placed in the tomb with the
body. On the back of the scarab the
hieroglyphics probably identify the owner
as these objects were commonly used as
seals. This seal seems to have a stork, a lion
and a palm leaf. Scarabs represented good
luck.
Ushabti
Ushabti
• This small statue was made of bronze and
was placed in the tomb. In the afterlife it
was believed these statues would magically
come to life and would perform whatever
task the deceased was called upon to do in
the hereafter, rather like servants or slaves.
Dog Mummy and X-ray
Dog Mummy
• This mummy of a dog was placed in the
tomb with its owner after a natural death.
This was to ensure that the pet followed the
owner to the afterlife.
Tutankhamen’s coffin
Tutankhamen’s Coffin
• Tutankhamen’s coffin is made of several hundred pounds
of beaten gold that has been inlayed with enamel and
semiprecious stones. The king is holding a crook and flail.
The body was buried in three coffins. When the body had
been mummified, it was wrapped, covered with a death
mask and sealed in this coffin. It was then covered in
charcoal, sand, and lime, and sealed in another coffin, and
then covered in charcoal, sand, and lime again, and then
sealed in the final coffin. The layers of charcoal, sand, and
lime helped seal the body and keep it well preserved.
Acknowledgements
• http://www.ancient-art.com/artifact.htm
• bleedingeyeballs.com/basenjiart/
dogmummy.htm
• www2.sptimes.com/Egypt/Artifacts/
Artifacts.9.html
• www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians
• www.beloit.edu/~arthist/historyofart/
egyptian/artifacts.htm
• http://www.aegyptenonline.de/images/giza/pyramid.jpg