New Kingdom
The period in ancient Egypt comprising the Eighteenth Dynasty through the Twentieth Dynasty, often considered the peak of ancient Egyptian culture.
New Kingdom
The period in ancient Egypt comprising the Eighteenth Dynasty through the Twentieth Dynasty, often considered the peak of ancient Egyptian culture.
Basics to get you started
Ancient Egyptian chronology and historical framework
Creation myths and form(s) of the gods in ancient Egypt
Multilingualism along the Nile
Materials and techniques in ancient Egyptian art
Ancient Egypt, an introduction
The mummification process
Private tombs, portals to the afterlife
Egyptian social organization—from the pharaoh to the farmer (part 1)
Obelisks and ancient Rome
Tiny timeline: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in a global context, 2nd–1st millennia B.C.E.
Works of Art
Artists
Lateran Obelisk, c. 1400 B.C.E., originally erected at the temple of Amun, Karnak by Thutmose III and Thutmose IV at a height of 32 meters; now roughly 4 meters shorter), monolith of red granite, 28 meters high (moved to Alexandria by Constantine, and later erected in the spina of the Circus Maximus in Rome by Constantius II in 357 C.E., re-erected at the Lateran in 1587 by Domenico Fontana for Pope Sixtus V)
