History 270

Working list: Classroom Visuals


Themes and Topics
  1. Maps of Egypt and Nubia
  2. Satellite Imagery: Egypt and Nile Valley
  3. Land and Environment
  4. Nile River, Inundation and Irrigation
  5. Cities, Places and Locations
  6. Historiography and Methods
  7. Calendars and Chronology
  8. Egyptian Society and Social Structure
  9. Egyptian History: Predynastic and Archaic Periods
  10. Egyptian History: Old Kingdom and 1st Intermediate Period
  11. Egyptian History: Middle Kingdom and 2nd Intermediate Period
  12. New Kingdom: Dynasty 18
  13. New Kingdom: Amarna Period and Following
  14. New Kingdom: Dynasty 19
  15. New Kingdom: Dynasty 20
  16. Post-New Kingdom


MAPS OF EGYPT AND NUBIA

    Egypt
  1. Relief Map of Ancient Egypt and Western Asia
  2. Map of the Ancient Near East (color)
  3. Map: The Nile River Basin (sources of the Nile inundation)
  4. Map of Egypt (color)
  5. Map of Egypt (black & white--for printing)
  6. Map: Comparative Area Nile River and the United States
  7. Map: Nile Valley: Egypt and Nubia & arable lands, NATGEO (color)
  8. Map of Modern Egypt (CIA)

  9. Map: Nile Delta in the Middle Kingdom
  10. Map: Nile Delta: 7 Branches of the Ancient Nile River
  11. Map: Nile Delta: Ancient Coastline during the Old Kingdom

  12. Map: Floor of the Mediterranean Sea

  13. Reconstruction: Egyptian world view (color)
  14. Reconstruction: Egyptian world view--with Egyptian place names (color)

  15. Map: The nomes of Upper and Lower Egypt (b/w) Nome boundaries conjectured and standardized.
  16. Map: The nomes of the Delta (Lower Egypt) Exact nome boundaries unclear.
  17. Map: The nomes of Upper Egypt (color) Nome boundaries conjectured and standardized.

  18. Map: Egyptian Empire, New Kingdom
  19. Map: Invasion routes of the Sea People through the Near East

    Nubia
  1. Map: Red Sea Routes to Punt (suggested locations)
  2. Map: Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, Kush and Punt
  3. Map: Ancient Nubia
  4. Map: Second Intermediate Period Political Kingdoms along the Nile River


SATELLITE IMAGERY: EGYPT AND THE NILE VALLEY

  1. Photo: The Black Sea
  2. Photo: The Black Sea: Hypothetical reconstruction of lake before alleged flooding (river courses conjectured)

  3. Satellite Photo: Nile Valley Looking South to North
  4. Satellite Photo: Nile Valley, View West to East
  5. Satellite Photo: Nile Valley and the Red Sea
  6. Satellite Photos: Views of the Nile Delta from Space
  7. Satellite Map and Overlay: Luxor-Farshut Desert Roads Network
  8. Satellite Photo: Modern Luxor City and Western Thebes

  9. Composite Aerial Photo: Comparison of Khufu's Great Pyramid and College of Charleston campus
  10. Composite Aerial Photo: Comparison of Karnak Temple and College of Charleston campus
  11. Composite Aerial Photo: Comparison of the Fort of Buhen and College of Charleston campus

LAND AND ENVIRONMENT

  1. Animation: Continental Drift
  2. Drawing: Phases of the Sahara Desert, 120,000 BC to Present (color)
  3. Photo: Views of the Nile Delta from Space
  4. Photo: Red Sea, Beach at Quseir (and excavations)

  5. Drawing: Topographical Cross-section of the Nile Valley (color)
  6. Schematic Drawing: Nile Flood Plain, 3,500 B.C., Plan and Section (color)

  7. Photo: Partially Collapsed Pyramid of Medum (and the Edge of the Cultivation)
  8. Photo: Middle Egypt Lush Oasis

  9. Photo (Quicktime): West Bank of Thebes
  10. Photo: Panorama of West Bank of Thebes
  11. Photo: Wadi Hammamat, Eastern Desert
  12. Composite Drawing: Turin Papyrus, Map of Wadi Hammamat (Dynasty 19)

  13. Photo: Sadd el-Kafara Dam in Wadi Garawi, View to Northwest and North Wing, Upstream Side
  14. Photo: Sadd el-Kafara Dam, View Down Wadi and North Wing
  15. Photo: Sadd el-Kafara Dam, Destroyed
  16. Photo: Sadd el-Kafara Dam, Restored

NILE RIVER, INUNDATION AND IRRIGATION

  1. Chart: Geological Time Scale (Precambrian onward)
  2. Chart: Phases of the Nile River (Late Miocene onward)

  3. Schematic Drawing: Nile Flood Plain, 3,500 B.C., Plan and Section (color)
  4. Animation: Nile River Inundation in Upper Egypt, Aerial (hypothetical)
  5. Animation: Inundation of Flood Plain at Work
  6. Schematic Plan: Overview of Basin Irrigation System: basins and canals (color)
  7. Animation: Basin System at Work
  8. Reconstruction: Basin irrigation system--low water prior to inundation (color)
  9. Reconstruction: Basin irrigation system--opening the feeder canals (color)
  10. Reconstruction: Basin irrigation system--high water level (color)

  11. Aerial Photo: Nile Inundation by Giza Pyramids and Nazlet Simaan
  12. Photo: Nile Inundation near Giza Pyramids--al-Haram/Oberoi
  13. Aerial Photo: Nile Inundation at Dahshur (with island-village)

  14. Photo: Modern Irrigation Canal, Western Thebes (Qurnah)
  15. Photo: Riverbank Village, Nile Levee, Upper Egypt
  16. Photo: Riparian Lands and Fields, High Water (Summer),

  17. Photo: Nile River, High Water (Summer), Luxor West Bank (facing south)
  18. Photo: Nile River, Low Water (Winter) (Upper Egypt, facing northwest)
  19. Sequential Series: Colossi of Memnon at Inundation and Reconstruction of Temple of Amenhotep III, Kom el-Hetan, Western Thebes (Qurnah)
  20. Photo: Nile River, First Cataract, north of Low Dam(color)
  21. Panoramic Photo: Nile River, Second Cataract and Environs, AD 1890 (colorized)

  22. Photo: White Chapel of Sesostris I, Karnak Temple
  23. Photo and Text: White Chapel of Sesostris I and Text of Ideal the Nile inundation
  24. Photo: shaduf (water lifting device) for irrigation: wall-scene in tomb of Ipuy (W. Thebes), Dyn. 18
  25. Photo and Drawing: Comparison of ancient and modern shadufs, AD 1890 and tomb of Ipuy (14th century BC)

CITIES, PLACES AND LOCATIONS

    Memphis:
  1. Map: Ruins of Memphis, 19th Century (Lepsius and Reil)
  2. Satellite Photo: Site of Memphis Today: Mit Rahina and Badrasheen
  3. Satellite Map: Plan of Memphis Overlayed on Modern Mit Rahina.
  4. Composite Image: Overlay Plan of Ancient Memphis on Modern Mit Rahina (click image to toggle series).
  5. Drawing: Reconstruction, Ancient Memphis, aerial view (7th century BC)
  6. Satellite Photo: Site of Memphis (oblique view to northwest)
  7. Composite Image: Reconstruction of Ancient Memphis Overlayed on Modern Mit Rahina
  8. Photo: Memphis (Tell el-Qala): Temple of Ptah, Western Hypostyle Hall of Ramesses II
  9. Drawing: Memphis, Temple of Ptah, Western Facade (Reconstruction)

    Giza (+"Lost City"):
  10. Photo: Giza Great Pyramids, complexes, Sphinx (Aerial)
  11. Drawing: Reconstruction, Aerial View of Giza Plateau, Dynasty 4

  12. Geoarchaeological Map: "Lost City" of the Pyramids, Giza Pyramid Plateau and Adjacent Nile Floodplain (after Butzer, JAS 40 [2013]).
  13. Geoarchaeological Map: "Lost City" of the Pyramids, Giza Plateau and Early Holocene Nile Branch(after Butzer, JAS 40 [2013]).
  14. Geoarchaeological Map: "Lost City" of the Pyramids, Giza Old Kingdom Nilotic Channels and Wadi Wash (after Butzer, JAS 40 [2013]).
  15. Geoarchaeological Map: "Lost City" of the Pyramids, Giza Late Holocene, Dyn. 25 to Islamic (after Butzer, JAS 40 [2013]).
  16. Area Map: "Lost City" of the Pyramids, Menkaure Wadi, Harbor and Towns (after Butzer, JAS 40 [2013]).

    El-Amarna (i.e., El-Til + Amariyah) = Akhetaten:
  17. Map: Amarna District, East and West Banks, Locations of Boundary Stelae.
  18. Map: Amarna City and Environs, Urban Areas, Stelae and Necropoli.

  19. Plan: Amarna Great Palace Area, Bridge and King's House.
  20. Plan: Amarna King's House.
  21. Plan: Amarna Office Block East of King's House and Temples.

  22. Drawing: Amarna Central City, from River and West (reconstruction).
  23. Drawing: Amarna Central City, from North (reconstruction).
  24. Drawing: Amarna Small Temple of the Aten (reconstruction).
  25. Drawing: Amarna Royal Bridge Connecting Great Palace t King's House (reconstruction).

    Thebes and Thebaid:
  26. Map: Overall Shifting of the Theban Nile River
  27. Plans: Shifting of the Theban Nile
  28. Photo: Nile Bend North of Luxor/Thebes, View from South, Top of Qurn Mountain

  29. Drawing: Flow of the Nile over Time and Expansion of Karnak Temple (after Bunberry)
  30. Plan: Karnak Temple Shifting Riverbank and Island, Early Dynasty 18 (Tutankhamun)
  31. Plan: Karnak Temple Shifting Riverbank and Island, Later Dynasty 18 (Hatshepsut/Thutmose III)
  32. Plan: Karnak Temple Shifting Riverbank and Island, Dynasties 25-26
  33. Plan: Karnak Temple Shifting Riverbank and Island, Dynasties 30-31
  34. Plan: Karnak Temple Shifting Riverbank and Island, Ptolemaic and Roman Times
  35. Aerial Photo: Karnak Temple Modern Plaza and Current Riverbank

  36. Satellite Photo: Modern Luxor City and Western Thebes
  37. Photo: Luxor City (Thebes), East and West Banks, View to West, Aerial
  38. Drawing: East and West Banks of Ancient Thebes, View to West, Aerial (reconstruction)
  39. Photo: Luxor City (Thebes), View to South, Aerial

  40. Drawing: Reconstruction, Temple Complex of Amun-Ra at Karnak (reconstruction)
  41. Drawing: Ancient Thebes, Luxor Temple and Avenue of Sphinxes (13th century BC), View to North (reconstruction)

  42. Photo: Western Thebes: Theban Necropolis Aerial from North
  43. Photo: Western Thebes: Theban Necropolis Aerial from East (entire)
  44. Photo: Western Thebes, Deir el-Bahari Temple, Khokha (Aerial) from East
  45. Drawing: Temples of Deir el-Bahari (Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Mentuhotep II), Western Thebes, 15th century BC (reconstruction)

  46. Photo: Panorama of West Bank of Thebes from Top of Qurn
  47. Photo (Quicktime): West Bank of Thebes
  48. Photo: Sheikh Abd el-Qurnah Hill, Rock Tombs (Aerial) from East
  49. Photo: Sheikh Abd el-Qurnah: Rock Tombs of R`ay, Senenmut, Ahmose
  50. Drawing: Ancient Walled Town of Deir el-Medina, Workmen's Village, Western Thebes, 15th century BC (reconstruction)
  51. Photo: Wadi Hammamat, Eastern Desert

    Alexandria:
  52. Plan: Alexandria, Ancient and Modern (overlay)
  53. Drawing: Reconstruction, Pharos Lighthouse

HISTORIOGRAPHY AND METHODS

  1. Chart: Sources and Approaches to the Study of Egyptian Culture
  2. Chart: Geoarchaeology and Landscape Archaeology

CALENDARS AND CHRONOLOGY

  1. Photo: Phases of the Moon (animation)
  2. Photo: Nabta Playa Astronomical Observatory, Calendar Ring (c. 4500-3600 BC)
  3. Photo: Nabta Playa Astronomical Observatory (c. 4500-3600 BC)
  4. Plan: Nabta Playa Calendar Ring and Lines of Sight (c. 4500-3600 BC)

  5. Drawing: Astronomical Ceiling, Tomb of Senenmut (ca. 1488 BC)
  6. Drawing: Senenmut Ceiling Detail: Constellation Orion and Star Sirius
  7. Photo: Constellation Orion and Star Sirius in the Southern Sky (click on image to animate labels)
  8. Photo-montage: Orion-Sah and Sirius-Sopdet in the Southern Sky
  9. Drawing: Sopdet as a Cow, Dendera Temple, Astronomical Ceiling
  10. Montage: Sopdet on Ivory Tag of King Djer, Abydos, First Dynasty

  11. Animation: Demonstration of Heliacal Rising of Sothis/Sirius (Peret Sopdet), Memphis, July 6, 1991, 4:50 am UT (= 6:55 am standard local time). Extracted from Sky View Café (skyviewcafe.com).
  12. Utility: Sky View Café.com. Demonstrate and explore astronomical events and observations in the past and present.; perform exercises in Egyptian calendrics.

  13. Drawing: Lunar Calendar with Concurrent Rotating Civil (Solar) Calendar (animation)
  14. Names of the Days of the Month in the Egyptian Lunar Year (Schematic)
  15. Egyptian Solar (Civil) Calendar: Seasons, Months and Days (Schematic)
  16. Chart: New Kingdom Regnal Year Dating (Issues)
  17. Chart: Comparison of Months of the Solar and Lunar Calendars with Coptic Month-names
  18. Chart: The Sothic Cycle Resulting from Daily Slippage between Solar Year (365 days) and Sidereal (Natural) Year (365.25 days)
  19. Chart: Concordance of Calendars: Gregorian and Egyptian Civil Years, 01/01/2012 - 12/31/2017
  20. Video (2:21): Winter Solstice Sunrise over Central Axis, Temple of Karnak, December 21, 2012 (You Tube) [chanting by Sufi singer Sheikh Amin el-Dishnawi]

EGYPTIAN SOCIETY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE

  1. Graph: Population of the Nile Valley, 5000 BC - AD 1000 (hypothetical)
  2. Chart: Hypothetical Demographic Development in Ancient Egypt (by Region), 4000 BC - 150 BC
  3. Diagram: Structure of Egyptian society: King as focus of society, around whom orbit the social classes

EGYPTIAN HISTORY: PREDYNASTIC AND ARCHAIC PERIODS

  1. Map: Three Proto-kingdoms of Upper Egypt Prior to the political consolidation of Upper Egypt under Hierakonpolis
  2. Photo: Abydos, Tomb U-j, Horus Scorpion (Naqada IId/IIIa)
  3. Drawing: Ivory Knife-handle, Gebel el-Arak, Egypt. Mesopotamian motives: master of animals (= Sumerian en) and preying animals, and Mesopotamian-like ships with upraised prows and sterns
  4. Drawing: Ivory Knife-handle, Gebel el-Tarif, Egypt. Mesopotamian motives: entwined serpents, rosettes, winged griffin, and preying animals
  5. Drawing: Scorpion Macehead, Hierakonpolis. Relief depicting King Scorpion of Hierakonpolis (Dynasty 0) in the ritual of cutting open a dike or canal; dead rekhyt-birds on standards represent defeated people of the Delta-region.
  6. Drawing: Narmer Palette, Hierakonpolis. Left side depicts Narmer as King of Upper Egypt performing the ritual execution of a Lower Egyptian captive. The right side depicts him as King of Lower Egypt inspecting ten decapitated corpses.
  7. Drawing: Reconstruction of mastaba of King Djet, Saqqara, Dynasty 1
  8. Photo: Funerary Enclosure of Khasekhemwy, Hierakonpolis (Dynasty 2)
  9. Photo: Funerary Enclosure of Khasekhemwy, Hierakonpolis, detail of niched-brick panelled facade
  10. Photo: Funerary Enclosure of Khasekhemwy, Abydos (Dynasty 2)
  11. Photo: Boat-graves of Khasekhemwy, Abydos (Dynasty 2)

EGYPTIAN HISTORY: OLD KINGDOM AND 1ST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD

  1. Drawing: 3-D Reconstruction of simplified Old Kingdom mastaba (color)
  2. Drawing: Evolution of Pyramid Architecture from mastaba through step pyramid to true pyramid (Dynasties 1-4)

  3. Plan: Step Pyramid Complex of King Djoser, Saqqara, Dynasty 3
  4. Photo: Satellite Photograph of Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser
  5. Photo: Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser, enclosure wall and main entrance
  6. Drawing: Section of Step Pyramid of King Djoser with five building phases (color)

  7. Photo: Partially Collapsed Pyramid of Medum (Aerial)
  8. Drawing: Section of Pyramid of Huni at Medum, Dynasty 3-4: detailing alteration from step pyramid to true pyramid (b/w)
  9. Photo: Bent Pyramid of Snefru at Dahshur, Dynasty 4

  10. Photo: Statuette of King Khufu (Louvre)
  11. Photo: Giza Great Pyramids, complexes, Sphinx (Aerial)
  12. Drawing: Reconstruction, Aerial View of Giza Plateau, Dynasty 4
  13. Photo: Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) at Giza (photo by Francis Frith)
  14. Composite Aerial Photo: Comparison of Khufu's Great Pyramid and College of Charleston campus
  15. Photo: Giza, Pyramids of Khufu's Queens and Boat-graves
  16. Photo: Giza, mastabas of the Old Kingdom (from top of Khufu's pyramid)
  17. Photo: Giza, Pyramid of Khafre and mortuary temple (from top of Khufu's pyramid)

  18. Drawing: Abusir, Reconstruction, Aerial View of the Pyramids and Sun Temples (incl. newly discovered), Dynasty 5
  19. Drawing: Reconstruction of the Pyramids of Abu Sir, Dynasty 5
  20. Drawing: Reconstruction of the sun-temple of King Neuserre at Abu Ghurob (Dynasty 5) with benben as cult-focus (color)

  21. Drawing: 3-D Reconstruction of pyramid and pyramid temple of King Unas, Saqqara, Dynasty 5 (color)
  22. Photo: Satellite Photograph of Pyramid Complex of Unas

EGYPTIAN HISTORY: MIDDLE KINGDOM, NUBIA, AND 2ND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD

  1. Photo: Mortuary temples of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II and Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari (Dynasty 11, Western Thebes)
  2. Plan and reconstruction of the mortuary temple and tomb of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II at Deir el-Bahari (Dynasty 11, Western Thebes)
  3. Photo: Statue of Deified King Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II (Deir el-Bahari temple and tomb)

  4. Photo: Statue of King Amenemhat (Karnak temple)
  5. Photo: Statue of Sesostris I (MMA-New York)
  6. Photo: Statuary of Sesostris III

  7. Plan: Nubia, Fort of Buhen
  8. Composite Aerial Photo: Comparison of the Fort of Buhen and College of Charleston campus
  9. Photo: Nubia, Ruins of Fort of Buhen (colorized)
  10. Map: Nubia, Second Cataract Region: The Forts of Sesostris III
  11. Drawing: Nubia, Semna and Kumma Forts (Nubia)
  12. Drawing: Nubia, Plan and Reconstruction, Fort of Shalfak

  13. Map: Second Intermediate Period Political Kingdoms along the Nile River
  14. Photo: Head of the mummy of King Seqenenre Tao II (Thebes, Dyn. 17)
  15. Photo: Second Stela of Kamose (Dyn. 17)

NEW KINGDOM: DYNASTY 18

  1. Photo: Statuette of Queen Ahmes-Nefertari
  2. Genealogical Chart: 18th Dynasty Royal Family (color)
  3. Photo: Statue of Amenhotep I
  4. Photo: Statue of Queen Ahmes Meritamun (British Museum)

  5. Photo: Statue of Thutmose I
  6. Drawing: Relief of Queen Ahmes, Mother of Hatshepsut (drawn by Howard Carter, Temple of Deir el-Bahari)

  7. Photo: Seated Statue of Queen Hatshepsut
  8. Photo: Obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut, decorated pyramidion, Karnak Temple
  9. Photo: Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, Western Thebes
  10. Drawing: Reconstruction, Temples of Deir el-Bahari (Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Mentuhotep), Western Thebes (15th century BC)
  11. Drawing: Punt Expedition of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahari

  12. Photo: Western Thebes: Theban Necropolis Aerial from North
  13. Photo: Western Thebes: Theban Necropolis Aerial from East (entire)
  14. Photo: Western Thebes, Deir el-Bahari Temple, Khokha (Aerial) from East
  15. Photo: Sheikh Abd el-Qurnah Hill, Rock Tombs (Aerial) from East
  16. Photo: Sheikh Abd el-Qurnah: Rock Tombs of R`ay, Senenmut, Ahmose

  17. Photo: Statue of Thutmose III
  18. Photo: Statue of Thutmose III (close-up)

  19. Map: Egyptian Empire, New Kingdom
  20. Photo: Statue of Amenhotep II
  21. Photo: Statue of Thutmose IV

  22. Drawing: Reconstruction, Ancient Thebes, Luxor Temple and Avenue of Sphinxes (13th century BC)
  23. Drawing: Reconstruction, East and West Banks of Thebes, aerial view (6th century BC)
  24. Plan: Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak
  25. Drawing: Reconstruction of Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak (color)
  26. Composite Aerial Photo: Comparison of Karnak Temple and College of Charleston campus
  27. Photo: First Pylon-gateway of the Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak
  28. Photo: Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak from above First Court
  29. Photo: Columns of the Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak
  30. Photo: Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak from Sacred Lake

  31. Photo: Gold Cult-statue of of Amun-Ra, King of the Gods
  32. Drawing: Procession of the Portable Bark-shrine of Amun-Ra, Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, Dyn. 30 (wall relief, sanctuary facade)

  33. Photo: Pylons and Entrance of Luxor Temple (Temple of Amun-Kamutef)
  34. Drawing: Reconstruction of Luxor Temple

  35. Drawing: Captured Peoples of the Egyptian Empire (personification of the "Nine Bows"-enemies), from the throne dais of Amenhotep III
  36. Photo: Nubians Bringing Tribute to Egypt (tomb of Sebekhotep)
  37. Photo: Egyptianized Nubian Princess and Retinue Come in Homage to King Tutankhamun (tomb of Huy)
  38. Photo: Wall Scene of Nubian Princes and Princesses Bringing Tribute to Tutankhamun (tomb of Huy)

NEW KINGDOM: AMARNA PERIOD AND FOLLOWING

  1. Photo: Colossi of Memnon: Monumental statues of Amenhotep III, Qurnah, Western Thebes (during inundation pre-1962)
  2. Photos: Stela of Amenhotep III (old) vs. Statue of Deified Amenhotep III Rejuvenated
  3. Photo: Statue of Cult Image of Deified Amenhotep III (red quartzite), the "Dazzling Aten of All Lands" (Luxor Museum)

  4. Photos: Statues of Akhenaten and Nefertiti (Cairo Museum and Louvre)
  5. Photo: Carved Relief, Akhenaten and Nefertiti Offering Water Jars to the Aten, Followed by Daughter
  6. Photos: Depictions of the Goddess Ma'at, "Truth"

  7. Photo: Decorated Talatat-blocks from the Temple of the Aten at Karnak, disassembled and mixed
  8. Photo: Decorated Talatat-blocks from the Temple of the Aten at Karnak, reconstructed and assembled
  9. Photo: Decorated Talatat-blocks from the Temple of the Aten at Karnak: preparing food offerings, making beer
  10. Photo: Amarna Tablet no. 365: Letter of Biridiya, Prince of Megiddo, to the King of Egypt (expressing loyalty and cooperation)

  11. Photo: Statuette of King Tutankhamun as the God Nefertem (Cairo Museum)
  12. Photo: Wall Scene of Tutankhamun Enthroned Receiving Nubian Vassals (tomb of Huy)
  13. Drawing: Reconstruction of the Tombs of Horemheb, Maya and Tiya at Saqqara

NEW KINGDOM: DYNASTY 19

  1. Photo: Mummy of Ramesses II (Cairo Museum)
  2. Drawing: Reconstruction of the City of Thebes (from South), reign of Ramesses II

NEW KINGDOM: DYNASTY 20

  1. Map: Invasion routes of the Sea People through the Near East
  2. Photo: Medinet Habu Temple pylon
  3. Drawing: Egyptian land battle against the Sea People in Canaan
  4. Photo: Relief of Egyptian naval battle against Sea People (Medinet Habu)
  5. Drawing: Detail of Pelest Warriors (Philistines), Naval battle against the Sea People (Medinet Habu)
  6. Drawing: Relief of Egyptian naval battle against Sea People (Medinet Habu)


EGYPTIAN HISTORY: POST-NEW KINGDOM

  1. Photo: Stela of Shabako, Memphite Theology (British Museum)
  2. Photo: Ushabties of Kings Taharqa and Seti I (British Museum)
Images Index
Alexandria map
Amarna (Akhetaten) maps
Amarna bridge (recon)
Amarna offices plans
Amarna palace/city plans
Amarna reconstructions
anim: flooding basins
anim: heliacal rising Sirius
anim: moon phases
anim: Nile flood-aerial
anim: Nile plain flooding
anim: rotating calendars
astro-ceiling, Senenmut
basin irrigation plan
Bent Pyramid
Black Sea
Black Sea recon
Buhen & CofC comparison
calendars
canal W. Thebes
cities
civil calendar (schematic)
civil-Gregorian calendars
Colossi of Memnon (series)
concordance: Gregorian-civil calendars
continental drift (anim)
cross-section: Nile Valley
Dahshur Bent Pyramid
Dahshur flood aerial
days of lunar month
Deir el-Bahari recon
Deir el-Bahari/Khokha aerial
Deir el-Medina recon
Djer tag, Sopdet
Djoser complex entrance & wall
Djoser pyramid phases
Djoser pyramid plan
First Cataract
flood plain: plan+section
geologic eras chart
Giza
Giza 3 pyramids: aerial
Giza 3 pyramids: aerial recon
Giza 3 pyramids: Frith photo
Giza flood aerial
Giza flood/al-Haram-Oberoi
Giza Lost City: plateau & plain
Giza Lost City: Early Holocene Nile
Giza Lost City: O.K. early channels
Giza Lost City: Dyn. 25 to Islamic
Giza Lost City: harbor & towns
Giza mastabas (aerial)
Giza/CofC overlay
great pyramids aerial (photo)
great pyramids aerial (recon)
Gregorian-civil calendars
heliacal rising Sirius (anim)
historiography
historiography approaches
inundation Dahshur aerial
inundation Giza aerial
inundation Luxor aerial
Ipuy shaduf
irrigation (topics)
Karnak & CofC overlay
Karnak bank/island shifts
Karnak first pylon
Karnak Nile shifts/
Karnak plan
Karnak plaza
Karnak solstice sunrise
Khufu boat graves
Khufu queens, boat graves
Khufu statuette
Khufu/CofC overlay
land/environment
lunar days names
lunar-solar calendars rotate (anim)
lunar-solar month names
Luxor aerial southward
Luxor flood aerial
Luxor/W. Bank aerial eastward
mastaba section (drawing)
mastabas Giza (aerial)
Medum pyramid aerial
Medum pyramid casing (drawing)
Memphis
Memphis hypo hall
Memphis map overlay
Memphis overlay oblique
Memphis overlay series
Memphis recon drawing
Memphis ruins map
Memphis satellite
Memphis satellite oblique
Middle Egypt oasis
month names (solar+lunar)
moon phases (anim)
Nabta Playa: calendar ring
Nabta Playa: big ring calendar
Nabta Playa: calendar ring (plan)
Nazlet Samaan flooding
night sky: Orion+Sirius
Nile bend Qurn view north
Nile sandbanks
Nile shift: Giza, plateau & plain
Nile shift: Giza, Early Holocene
Nile shift: Giza, Old Kingdom early channels
Nile shift: Giza, Dyn. 25 to Islamic
Nile shift: Giza, harbor & towns
Nile shift: Karnak
Nile River, Inundation and Irrigation
Nile Valley cross-section
Orion-Sirius astro-ceiling
Orion-Sirius montage
Orion-Sirius night sky (series)
overlay Memphis map
overlay Memphis recon
Pharos Lighthouse recon
Ptah Temple recon
pyramid complexes Giza
pyramid evolution (drawing)
pyramid & CofC comparison
Qurn view Nile bend north
Qurna aerial from east
Qurna aerial from north
Qurna rock tombs
Quseir/Red Sea
R`ay, Senenmut tombs
recon Memphis (color)
regnal year dating
riparian lands flooded
river phases chart
riverbank-levee Upper Egypt
riverbank flooded
rock tombs: R`ay, Senenmut
rotating calendars
Sadd el-Kafara dam (PP)
sandbanks Upper Egypt
Sahara phases
satellite images
sat: Delta
sat: Luxor/Farshut rds.
sat: Luxor/W.Thebes
sat: Memphis
sat: Memphis oblique
sat: Nile Valley S=>N
sat: Nile Valley W=>E
sat: Nile Valley/Red Sea
sat: Step Pyramid Djoser
Second Cataract (colored)
Senenmut astro-ceiling
Senenmut astro-ceiling (detail)
shaduf (Ipuy)
shaduf comparison
Sirius (Sopdet/Sothis)
Sirius heliacal rising (anim)
Sky View Café: Sirius (anim)
Sky View Café.com
slippage: sothic cycle
solar-lunar month names
solstice sunrise Karnak Temple
Sopdet, cow (Dendera)
Sopdet, King Djer tag
sothic cycle chart
Sothis (Sopdet/Sirius)
sources & approaches (chart)
Step Pyramid Djoser entrance/wall
Step Pyramid Djoser phases
Step Pyramid Djoser plan
Step Pyramid Djoser satellite
Theban Nile Karnak shifts
Theban Nile shift map (overall)
Theban Nile time shifts (plans)
Theban tombs Qurna (aerial)
Thebes
Thebes: recon East & West (aerial)
Thebes: recon Karnak
Thebes: recon Luxor Temple
Turin map
W. Thebes-360
W. Thebes aerial east
W. Thebes aerial north
W. Thebes canal
W. Thebes Deir el-Bahari/Khokha
W. Thebes flood aerial
W. Thebes panorama
W. Thebes Qurnah rock tombs
W. Thebes recon (drawing)
Wadi Hammamat
White Chapel, Seso I
White Chapel texts

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