What is charcoal? History of Science
Charcoal history Why use charcoal? Charcoal is a certain kind of half-burnt wood. People use charcoal for fires because it burns hotter and cleaner than wood (less smoky), and more [...]
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Old Kingdom art – Ancient Egypt
Rahotep and Nefret You might think that Egyptian art would start out not very good, a little rough, and then little by little artists would learn more about carving and painting [...]
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New Kingdom Art – Ancient Egypt
Rameses III and prisoners About 1500 BC, new rulers unified Egypt again as the New Kingdom. At first, their sculptures and paintings were not much different from the sculptures and [...]
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Middle Kingdom Egyptian Sculpture
Amenemhet III, Egyptian pharaoh By the time of the Middle Kingdom, about 2000 BC, Egyptian sculptors, like other Egyptian artists, were beginning to work in a new style. Senroset, [...]
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Middle Kingdom Art – Ancient Egypt
This scene is from the tomb of Ti, who was an important government official in the Middle Kingdom. With the collapse of the Old Kingdom about 2160 BC, there was [...]
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Sculpture in Ancient Egypt
Early Egyptian sculpture (4500 BC) People began to carve sculptures in Egypt about 4500 BC, about the same time as in West Asia and in southern Africa. These early sculptures [...]
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Pottery in Ancient Egypt – Egyptian pottery
Egyptian pottery: Naqada II clay jar (Egypt, 3500 BC)Metropolitan Museum, NYC When did Egyptian pottery get started? People in Egypt started to make pottery about 4000 BC, ten thousand years [...]
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Wall painting in Ancient Egypt
Early Egyptian wall painting: A person in a boat (Barramiya, Upper Egypt, ca. 4000 BC) Stone Age rock carvings The earliest art from North Africa is carvings of giraffes and [...]
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Ancient Egypt art project: drawing self-portraits
Ancient Egypt art project: What would you look like in Egyptian art? Egyptian sculptors wanted to show what people were really like inside, not just what they looked like on [...]
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What’s the Amarna period? Ancient Egypt
Akhenaten (ca. 1350 BC) New Kingdom Egypt In the middle of the New Kingdom, around 1350 BC, the Greeks were building their megaron palaces at Mycenae and Pylos. The Hittites [...]
