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Egyptian Art

Grade 6

Susan Stephens

Introduction• Egyptian Art includes tomb walls, urns,

hieroglyphics, temples, pyramids, and artifacts found in the burial chambers.

• Hieroglyphics is a type of writing using pictures. It can be written up to down, left to right, or right to left, depending on which way the animal faces are turned.

• Some of the most famous artifacts were found in King Tut’s tomb. Most were made of gold.

• Tomb walls tell the story of the life or afterlife of the person buried there.

• On tomb walls, as well as, temples the royal or holy name is written in a cartouche.

• Most tombs are found in the “Valley of the Kings”.

• Pyramids are also tombs of some of the Kings.

What are Hieroglyphics?

• Tomb in the “Valley of the Kings.

• Type of writing using pictures.

• King Tut’s Mother

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Who’s tomb had gold artifacts?

• Urns• King Tut• Grandma Moses

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What were the pyramids used for?

• A decoration for the city.

• A house

• Tombs for the Kings

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Which way do you read hieroglyphics?

• Top to bottom• Left to right• Right to left• All of the above