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1 The Nile: from Naqada to the Mediterranean Version 1.0

2 These programmes on The World of Ancient Art have been designed for students and the public. They use material on the web to show the wealth of information that is available. They are visual with many images and minimal i text. t The url given for each image enables users to learn more about any subject. Particular attention has been given to highlighting both the scholarly websites and the public resources of social networking sites, Wikipedia and Google Earth/Maps. The first programmes begin with the great riverine cultures of antiquity. Those on other parts of the ancient world will be phased in during All programmes will be updated regularly. The World of Ancient Art ( is being designed as a web-based collaborative research platform, initially for the School of Archaeology in the University of Oxford. When firmly established it will welcome contributions from scholars and the public. As part of CLAROS ( the site will use emerging technologies to deliver scholarly l information in accessible formats to a global community of users. Donna Kurtz

3 Contents t Chronological charts and maps Naqada Dendera Abydos Badari Asyut Amarna Beni Hasan Oxyrhynchus Desert oases: Bahariya and Siwa Fayyum: Crocodopolis and Hawarra Dashur page 1 of 2

4 Contents t Saqqara Memphis Gizeh Abusir Siwa Tanis Naucratis Wadi Natrun Alexandria Canopus Heracleion Museum and collections

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9 Chronology of Egypt

10 Interactive map of the Nile from the 2 nd cataract from the 2 nd cataract

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12 Map of major archaeological sites

13 Map of Egypt and Nubia html

14 Map showing oases and marshes

15 The Nile Photo: Donna Kurtz, January 2009

16 The Nile from space _composite_nasa.jpg

17 Dendera Naqada Luxor Naqada and Dendera Naqada and Dendera

18 Naqada pottery aqada potte y

19 Dendera Naqada Luxor Dendera

20 Cleopatra and her son by Julius Caesar, Caesarion

21 Dendera temple complex / iki/fil db i k d ll

22 Dendera, Temple of Hathor, p

23 Temple of Hathor Temple of Hathor

24 Dendera zodiac Dendera zodiac

25 Dendera zodiac

26 Dendera zodiac

27 Dendera zodiac not frame&idnotice=19044

28 An interpretation of the zodiac An interpretation of the zodiac

29 Abydos Dendera

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32 Temple of Seti 1 p

33 Plan of the temple p

34 Abydos King List Abydos King List

35 Cartouches in the King List

36 Beginning of the King List Beginning of the King List

37 Badari

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39 The Badari village i l i h h l

40 Badarian pottery Badarian pottery

41 Badari

42 Fayyum Beni Hasan Amarna Asyut

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44 Small llaten Temple aten temple

45 place/index.shtml

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47 Pharaoh Akhenaten Pharaoh Akhenaten

48 Two daughters of a pharaoh h 002

49 Another princess Another princess

50 Model of the central city y

51 Model of the Great Aten temple t / / th / t l /i l

52 Offering area in front of the temple Offering area in front of the temple

53 The Great Palace The Great Palace

54 Sir Flinders Petrie s reconstructions of columns p p amarna_the_place/central_city/index.shtml

55 Fayyum Beni Hasan Amarna Asyut

56 Beni Hasan tombs Beni Hasan tombs

57 Painting with wrestlers from tomb 15 Painting with wrestlers from tomb 15

58 Oxyrhynchus y p p g_ the_ site/index.shtml

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60 Oxyrhynchus

61 The theatre

62 Papyrus

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64 Bahariya oasis Oxyrhyncus

65 Bahariya oasis y

66 Fayyum Bahariya oasis Valley of the Golden Mummies

67 Excavating the Golden Mummies the

68 Golden mummies htm

69 Mummy in Roman dress

70 Tomb in the Valley of the golden mummies golden mummies

71 Valley of the golden mummies t /b h i l

72 Hawara Crocodopolis

73 Sobek seated with a pharaoh Sobek as crocodile-headed man

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76 Lake Moeris canal Faiyum from space g

77 (Image courtesy of Christiane Müller-Hazenbos) Pyramid of Amenenhet III at Hawarra

78 List of pyramids List of pyramids

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83 The Labyrinth The Labyrinth

84 Computer model p

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90 ac uk/memphis/index html

91 Memphis, Temple of Ptah Memphis, Temple of Ptah

92 Memphis Great Temple of Ptah

93 List of pyramids List of pyramids

94 Sneferu s bent pyramid Sneferu s red pyramid

95 Memphis Great Temple of Ptah

96 Saqqara step pyramid

97 Saqqara, pyramids / iki/fil t

98 UNESCO World Heritage Centre: Memphis and its necropoleis org/en/list/86

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102 Memphis Great Temple of Ptah

103 Sun Temples

104 Abusir, Sun Temples, p Drawing of the Sun Temple of Niuserre

105 One of the Abusir papyri gyp g

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108 UNESCO World Heritage Centre: Memphis and its necropoleis org/en/list/86

109 Gizeh today Gizeh today

110 Plan of Gizeh

111 Great Sphinx about 1880 Great Sphinx about

112 Sphinx partially excavated Sphinx

113 Plan of Gizeh Plan of Gizeh

114 Diagrams of the Great Pyramid greatpyramid3.htm

115 php?name=articles&file=article&sid=93

116 The Boat Pits The Boat Pits

117 Khufu s boat t t t/f t t / t id5

118 The reconstructed boat in the Boat Museum The reconstructed boat in the Boat Museum

119 -_Naucratis.png

120 Siwa Fayyum The Siwa oasis

121 Siwa oasis

122 Cyrene Siwa Naucratis

123 Canopic branach Tanic branch / iki/fil lt

124 Suez Canal ancient canal Ancient and modern canals gyp p

125 Tanis The Delta and the site of Tanis / 0 0,0 0 &t p&q 9

126 Tanis

127 Royal tombs at Tanis di / di / /2/20/T i

128 Psusennes I

129 Silver sarcophagus t t t/f t t /t i

130 Silver coffin of Psusennes I com/b/2010/10/31/the pharaoh secrets of the htm

131 General Wendebauendjed s dj d grave a /e / e e_ Montet Gold and silver bowls from the grave Gold death mask

132 Canopic branch Naucratis and Wadi Natrun Naucratis and Wadi Natrun

133 Natron crust around one of the lakes h / h / b li /O h / b bild

134 Petrie s 1886 publication Petrie s 1886 publication

135 Naucratis

136 Alexandria

137 mirror Computer-generated t model of the Lighthouse p _ crop.jpg pjpg

138 Sunken port of Alexandria ProjectName=Alexandria&Layout=D&XmlDocument=0005.xml

139 Ati Artist s t impression i of fthe port and dlighthouse org/sitemap/project/projectarticel aspx? ProjectName=Alexandria&Layout=D&XmlDocument=0006.xml

140 Alexandria

141 Pompey s column and an Egyptian Sphinx on the Acropolis

142 Aboukir (A) and Alexandria (D-F) Sunken cities i of Canopus and Heracleion &spn=0.1,0.1&t=h&q= , , ProjectArticel.aspx?ProjectName= CanopicRegion&Layout=C&XmlDocument=0010.xml

143 Canopus and Heracleion &Layout=C&XmlDocument=0014.xml

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145 Graphic artist: Yann Bernard Artist s s view of Herakleion and the temple to Amun-Gereb Layout=C&XmlDocument=0013.xml t l

146 The relief stele that identified the city as Thonis ProjectName=CanopicRegion&Layout=B&XmlDocument=0002.xml

147 Sculpture from the sea Sculpture from the sea

148 Sculpture from Herakleion Sculpture from Herakleion

149 Some collections of Egyptian art: museum/departments/ ancient_ egypt _ and_ sudan.aspx html The Egyptian Museum, Cairo edu/arthegypt html#ancegypt

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