Egypt
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Ann & Eddie's Egypt Travels.Karnak and Luxor Temples
The Valley of the Kings
Hatshepsut's Mortuary
Temple
Temple of Horus at Edfu
Temple of Philae
Temples at Abu Simbel
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Egyptology
Ancient Egypt Sites
National Geographic Report of the Opening of
the tomb of Tutankhamun,1923
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egypt/
TOMB OF A NEW KINGDOM NOBLEMAN
(TT99, Nigel Strudwick, Cambridge, excavator)
http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/egypt/tt99/
Abzu - Index Of Links About Ancient Egypt
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU_REGINDX_EGYPT.HTML
Deir el-Medina Database-- web site for the Tomb Workers
Village in Thebes
A Survey of the New Kingdom Non-literary Texts from
Deir el-Medina of Leiden University
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/nino/dmd/dmd.html
Egyptian Internet Resources
http://www.amarna.com/eir/#academic
KMT: A Modern Journal Of Ancient Egypt
http://www.egyptology.com/kmt/
Life and Death Under the Pharaohs
Egyptian Art from the National Museum of Antiquities,
Leiden, The Netherlands
http://icvc.imago.com.au/egypt/html/kingitem6.html
Nova Online: Pyramids, The Inside Story
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/nova/pyramid/
Egyptology Resources
(set up with the Newton Institute, University of Cambridge)
http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/egypt/
The Theban Mapping Project: Tomb Of The Sons Of Ramses (KV5)
http://www.kv5.com/
Egyptian Mystery Page
(featuring Tutankhamun's Tomb, The Great Pyramid, The Sphinx)
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/3499/page1.htm
A Lay-person's View of the Amarna Period
www.malone.org/~jrodrigu/isis/intro.html
One of the best sites about ancient Egypt:
Canadian Museum of Civlization's Mysteries of Ancient Egypt
http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/civiliz/egypt/egypt_e.html
Sphinx of Amenhotep III
Dynasty 18, 1391-1353 B.C.
Faience, l. 1.9 7/8 in. (25 cm)
The facial features of this faience sphinx would identify it as Amenhotep lll even
without the inscription. The graceful body of the lion transforms quite naturally into
human forearms and hands, an innovation of Dynasty 18. In this form the sphinx combines
the protective power of the lion with the royal function of offering to the gods. The even
tone of the fine blue glaze and the almost flawless condition of this sculpture make it
unique among ancient Egyptian faience statuettes.
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1972
Canopic Jar Lid, about 1353-1335 B.C
Dynasty 18 (Reign of Akhenaten)
Alabaster, h. 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)
Although the canopic jar to which this lid belongs was designed for a practical purpose
(as a container for an embalmed human organ), the lid is an unusually fine representation
of a royal woman that can be dated to the reign of Akhenaten or shortly thereafter. The
massive wig of layered curls is a headdress favored by Akhenaten's queen, Nefertiti, their
six daughters, and a minor queen, Kiya. The jar was found in Thebes in a tomb in the
Valley of the Kings that has aroused a great controversy concerning the events surrounding
Akhenaten's death and succession.
Theodore M. Davis Collections, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915
Temple of Dendur
Early Roman period, about 15 B.C.
Aeolian sandstone; length of gateway and temple 82 ft. (25 m)
This Egyptian monument, originally erected in Nubia, would have been completely
submerged as a result of the construction of the Aswan High Dam, begun in 1960. Instead
the temple was given to the U.S. in recognition of the American contribution to the
international campaign to save the ancient Nubian monuments.
The temple was built by the Roman emperor Augustus and honors the goddess Isis and two
deified sons of a local Nubian chieftain. The complex, reassembled as it appeared on the
banks of the Nile, is a simplified version of the standard Egyptian cult temple.
Given to the United States by Egypt in 1965, awarded to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in 1967, and installed in the Sackler Wing in 1978.
Ancient Egyptian
Art
When a new building was planned for the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1920s, it was
acknowledged that the arts of antiquity were central to the story of world art, and the
galleries for ancient art were situated at the core of the museum on the second floor. The
ancient galleries are arranged chronologically and geographically, beginning with examples
of art from prehistory and proceeding through the Near East, Egypt, Greece, Etruria, and
Rome.
The first objects from antiquity and Islam to join the collection were donated by
Frederick Stearns, a Detroit pharmaceutical manufacturer, in 1890. He gave a large number
of things that he had purchased in the Near East and Egypt, including mummies, seals,
mosaics, pottery, and other artifacts. For a brief period the museum contributed to the
Egypt Exploration Fund and received objects from their excavations as a result. Early
donors included Lillian Henkel Haass and her daughter, Constance Haass McMath, who were
among the most generous contributors to the ancient collections. Howard Carter, the
discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun, was commissioned as an agent for the museum and
through him six Egyptian objects were acquired.
Cleveland Museum
Of Art Pharaoh Exibition
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