Ancient Egypt’s Art Treasures

Egypt is one of the worlds

oldest civilizations.

Some Egyptian art is over 5000 years old!

Egyptian art showed Pharaohs and Queens.

Egyptians also showed everyday life, like farming and hunting.

Egyptians also showed animals in their art.

They loved using bright and strong

colors.

• Ancient Egyptian architects used sun-dried and kiln-baked bricks, fine sandstone, limestone and granite. Architects carefully planned all their work so the stones had to fit precisely together.

The 1st pyramid they designed had steps.

Later, Egyptians learned to cover these steps to create smooth pyramids.

The Great Pyramids at Giza are almost 5000 years old!

They were the tallest man made structures on earth for over 4000 years!

The pyramids are where the Kings were buried.

The Great Sphinx stands guard over the pyramids.

The Sphinx has a lion’s body and a human head.

King Tutankhamen is maybe the most famous

of all Pharaohs.

He is known as the boy king, he was 10

years old when he

ruled Egypt.

Tut was only 19 when he died.

One reason he is so famous is that his grave had not been

robbed. The royal art was still buried with him when he was

discovered.

Many times graves are found empty or ruined by time and weather.

These treasures included precious

stones and gold.

Scientist have recreated what King Tut would have looked like

using x-ray scans.

This is King Tut

revealed!

Nefertiti was said to be one of the most beautiful women who ever lived.

She was King Tut’s

stepmother.

Egyptians wrapped

their dead with

bandages to

preserve them.

Mummies were preserved for thousands of years.

Their insides were taken out and stored in special containers called canopic jars.

Every King had 4 jars.

Egyptians also made their cats

into mummies!

Egyptians wanted their pets with them in the afterlife.

Pharaohs were buried with the Eye of Horus to protect them.

Horus was an Egyptian God who was said

to have powers to stop grave robbers.

Sometimes he is a falcon.

Sometimes he is

wearing the crown of a Pharaoh.

Other times he is half man half

falcon.

Egyptians believed in many gods.

Most of them looked like animals and humans combined.

Anubis was a dog.

But he could also be half

man.

Ammit was part lion,

part hippo, and part

alligator.

Egyptians believed that Anubis and Ammit would judge you after you died to see if you made it into heaven. They would put you on a scale and feathers on the other side. If you told a lie your heart would be heavy. If you lived a

good honest life your soul would be as light as the feathers and you would go

to heaven.

If you were heavier than the feathers Ammit would gobble

you up.

Scarab beetles were thought to have magical powers. They pushed the sun up into the sky

every morning.

Egyptians wrote in a picture

language called hieroglyphics.

Egyptians wrote on a type of paper made from the plant called “papyrus”.

For many years no one knew how to read

hieroglyphics, until one day the Rosetta Stone

was discovered.

Egypt left a lasting legacy its art and architecture has influenced art

throughout the world.