Chapter 2 (page 2 of 2)   The Art of Mesopotamia and Egypt   go back                                                                       Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt, in the Tomb of Ti, Saqqara. Painted limestone, 2510-2460 BCE   Egyptian painting on plaster wall   Painting from the Tomb of Horemheb, Thebes. New Kingdom, c. 1580-1360 BCE. Paint on plaster wall   Fish Shaped Vase, Glass, 1350 BCE.   Harvest Scene, wall painting, Tomb of Khnukhorp Beni Hasan, 1928-1895 BCE                                                                         Pectoral of Senworset II. Gold and semiprecious stones, 1895-1878 BCE   Funerary temple of Hatshepsut, 1478-1458 BCE   Hatshepsut. New Kingdom. Granite.   Plan of the funerary temple of Hatshepsut   Plan of the Great Temple of Amun, Karnak. 1294-1212 BCE.                                                                         Hypostyle hall, Great Temple of Amun   Pylon of Ramesses II, 1279-1212 BCE   Queen Nefertari Making an Offering to Isis, wall painting, 1279-1212 BCE   Akhenaten with Nefertiti and Their Children.New Kingdom. Limestone, 1348-1336/5 BCE   The Rosetta Stone, 196 BCE.                                                                         The Rosetta Stone, Detail.   The Rosetta Stone, Detail.   Queen Tiy. Boxewood, ebony, glass, gold, lapis lazuli, cloth, clay, and wax, 1390-1352 BCE     Nefertiti. Limestone, 1348-1336 BCE   Inner coffin of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus, Gold inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones, 1336/5-1327 BCE                                                       End of Chapter 2 (page 2 of 2)                   go back     Judgement before Osiris, illustration from a Book of the Dead. Painted papyrus, 1285 BCE