ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HISTORY PART 1,

CLASS 1Instructor - Joe Boisvert

September 25, 2009GCCC Encore

Todays Discussion

CLASS ONE PRE-VIEW

Maps, Time Lines for

Overview of all of Egyptian History,

Pottery ?? Beginning of Ritual

Burial, Why??? Introduction to

Written Language

Maps Introduction and discussion of Upper and Lower Egypt

What did Egypt Look like? Transition from Hunting

and Gathering to Agriculture

More on written language and need for calendar

Ancient Egyptian Civilization

Neolithic – Pre-dynastic --------5200 - 3060 BC

Early Dynastic ----------------3060 - 2710 BC (Dynasties I and II)

Old Kingdom ----------------- 2710 - 2120 BC (Dynasties III-VIII)

I st Intermediate Period --------2160 - 2050 BC (Dynasties IX-XI Antef)

Middle Kingdom --------------- 2050 - 1795 BC (Dynasties XI Monthuhotep -XII)

II nd Intermediate Period --------- 1795 - 1550 BC (Dynasties XIII-XVII)

New Kingdom ------------------- 1550 - 1070 BC (Dynasties XVIII-XX)

III rd Intermediate Period ---------- 1070 - 653 BC (Dynasties XXI-XXV)

Late Period --------------------------- 664 - 332 BC (Dynasties XXVI-XXX)

Greco-Roman Period ------- 332 BC - 395 AD (Ptolemies and Roman Emperors) 

Years Periods / Dynasties Main events

  3100-2950 BC Late Predynastic Period

Earliest known hieroglyphic writing

Foundation of the Egyptian state

  2950-2575 BC Early Dynastic Period (1st-3rd Dynasties)

Creation of the capital city of Memphis

Intensive contact with Palestine

The first pyramid is built - the Step Pyramid at Saqqara

6000 – 3100 BC Early Pre-Dynastic or Prehistory

Observation of Natural Mummification

Egypt Stretched fromThe First Cataract 750 Miles to the Mediterranean Sea

Natural Mummification

Egyptian Pre-dynastic

This man (nicknamed "The Ginger Man" because of his red hair) was buried in the Egyptian sand over 5,000 years ago. Before mummification was developed, bodies were buried directly in the sand which then absorbed the water in the body. Without moisture, the bacteria that would decay the body couldn't survive, and the body remained remarkably well preserved

The Ginger Man British Museum

Predynastic Egyptian Man

This man died more than five thousand years ago.

The reconstruction of his grave-pit illustrates the early Egyptian custom of placing the body in a contracted position.

Before mummification was developed around 2700 BC, bodies were placed in shallow desert graves, in direct contact with the sand.

This meant that they frequently did not decay, because the hot dry sand absorbed the water that constitutes 75% by weight of the human body.

Without moisture bacteria cannot breed and cause decay, and the body is preserved. This body has been remarkably well preserved, even down to the hair and toe- and finger-nails.

EgyptianPainted pottery

Vessel, Predynastic Period, Naqada II, ca. 3450–3300 B.C.

Pre-Dynastic PeriodNaqada II, c.3200 - 3000 BC.

A large, elegant and slender black-topped conical jar. A classic type for the period! An absolutely gorgeous example of arguably the finest type of pottery to emerge out of the entire history of Egypt.

Early Pre-Dynastic Egyptian

Gathering Wheat Pre-Dynastic Egypt

The Faces of AncientEgypt

First Written Language ??SUMERIA, 3,200 B.C. THIS MESOPOTAMIAN CULTURE IS GENERALLY THOUGHT TO BE THE FIRST CULTURE TO PRODUCE WRITTEN TEXTS.

EGYPT, 3,200 - 3,000 B.C. EARLY EGYPTIANS USED A SYSTEM OF PICTORIAL HIERO-GLYPHICS AS A WRITTEN LANGUAGE. 

Who is This

Man??

Just for Fun