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New Kingdom
Refers to the last of three periods of ancient Egyptian civilization comprising the Eighteenth Dynasty through the Twentieth Dynasty. The New Kingdom is often considered to be the peak of ancient Egyptian culture. A brief revolutionary episode especially in representational art occurred during the reign of Akhenaten in the Amarna period when many existing conventions were reversed and more freedom of expression was allowed.
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Ancient Egyptian chronology and historical framework
Creation myths and form(s) of the gods in ancient Egypt
Multilingualism along the Nile
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Ancient Egypt, an introduction
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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.
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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)
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