story of art - 2. egypt, mesopotamia and creta

 

 

 

2613-2563

giza, egypt

 

 

 

 

 

the Amenhotep IV, or Akhenaten

 ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty

who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC.

 

 

 

 

 

1370–1330 b.c.

Neferneferuaten Nefertiti

 

 

 

 1332–1323 b.c.

Tutankhamun

 

 

 

 

2551–2494 B.C

"Reserve head"

Egyptian Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reigns of Khufu to Khafra

 

 

 

 

around 1350 BC

Nebamun's garden,

fragment of a scene from the tomb-chapel of Nebamun Thebes,

Egypt Late Dynasty

 

 

 

2778-2723

Hesire

egypt

 

 

 

 

 

 

1900 BC

 tomb of khnumhotep

egypt

 

 

1285 b.c.

Thoth

Judgement in the Presence of Osiris,

Hunefer's Book of the Dead

 

 

 

1600 b.c.

mycenae

 

 

 

1330 BC

Tutankhamun and his wife Ankhesenpaaten

 

 

 

 

 

3100-332 b.c.

mespotamia

 

2600 b.c.

harp, ur
sumer

mesopotamia

 

 

2270

The Trees of the Naram-Sin Stele

 

 

 

883-859

Siege of Lachich (Judah)

Assyrian army attacking the walls with a siege-engine

relief from SW. Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh (Kuyunjik)

 

 

 

 

1380

golden sphynx

thebes