Egypt B

1. Egypt & the Egyptians Part II: The 2 nd Intermediate Period Hyksos: (Dynasties 15-16) The New Kingdom : (Dynasties 18-20)

2. The 2 nd Intermediate Era (Dynasties 14-17) Dynasties 15-16 (The Hyksos Period (ca. 1640-1534?)

3. Asiatics (“rulers of foreign nations”) Migrating to Egypt ( tomb paint at Beni Hasn, c. 1900 B.C.)

4. Asiatics at Work in Egypt

5. “ Get them Asiatics” (from the 17 th Theban Dynast Kamose, c. 1560 B.C.)

6. The New Kingdom Era Dynasties 18-20 (1550-1075 B.C.)

7. Wall Painting From Tomb of Unsou in Eastern Thebes: Sowing & Harvesting (NK)

8. New Kingdom Era Urban Housing

9. Glass Vases

10. 18 th Dynasty: The ‘Thutmosid’ Dynasty 1550-1291 B.C.

11. Ahmose . . . (1550-1525 B.C.) “Get the dirty Hyksos out of here!”

12. First Pharaoh to be buried in KV Thutmose I (1504-1491 B.C.) Father of Hatshepsut

13. Valley of the Kings in Western Thebes (Kings buried here beginning with Thutmose I (1504-1491 B.C.)

14. Aerial of the Valley of the Kings

15. Thutmosis II (1491-1479 B.C.) Hatshepsut was his sister & his Queen Note the family resemblence among all mummies!

16. Queen Hatshepsut (1479-1458 B.C.) Daughter of Thutmose I Sister & Queen of Thutmose II Ruling Aunt of Thutmose III (co-regent 1479-1458) Dowager Queen (look it up!)

17. Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahri

18. Thutmosis III (1479-1425 B.C.) There is no way he could have been the Pharaoh of the exodus . . . unless, of course, he was! Which, of course, he wasn’t!

19. Thutmose III (1479-1425 B.C.) Wearing the Atef-Crown

21. “ Let’s not be ostentacious” . . . or is that ‘ostrich-a-tious’

22. Thutmosis IV (1397-1387 B.C.)

25. Akhetaten Letters: (Tell el-Amarna) Amenenhotep III (1387-1350 B.C.) & Amenhotep IV (1350-1333 B.C.) (Akhenaten)

26. “ Isn’t this sweet?” Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) (1350-1333 B.C.)

28. Different Face, but the same tummy! Akhenaten (Amenophis IV)

29. Worshiping the Aten

30. Amun of Thebes as the Presenter and Protector of Tutankh amun

31. Tutankhamun (1333-1323 B.C.) Burial Mask

32. 19 th Dynasty The First Ramesside Dynasty 1291-1185 B.C.

33. An Aesthetic Sense Matters!

34. Prince Ramses II “Did he know Moses in the palace?”

35. Ramses II & Nefertari (They were a ‘real item’ 1279-1256 B.C.)

36. The Entrance to Nefertari’s Tomb (QV 66) (note the goddess Ma`at)

38. Colossi of Ramses II at Abu Simbel (on the border with Nubia, just below the 2 nd cataract)

39. “ So let it be written, so let it be done”

40. Ramses II wearing the Blue Crown ( Khepresh ) or “War Crown”

41. Family Portraits: Egypt & Israel are linked here!

42. Ramses II Takes on the Neo-Hittite Empire . . . And Nearly Looses Everything

43. “ Why Have a Dog & Bark Yourself?” (securing good help in the afterlife)

44. The Merneptah or “Israel” Stele How many “Israels” do you think Egypt new about?

45. Israel Stele Text (c. 1208 B.C.) The (foreign) chieftains lie prostrate, saying “Peace.” Not one lifts his head among the Nine Bows. Libya is captured, while Hatti is pacified.. Canaan is plundered, Ashkelon is carried off, and Gezer is captured. Yenoam is made into non-existence; Israel is wasted, its seed is not ; and Hurru is become a widow because of Egypt. All lands united themselves in peace. Those who went about are subdued by the king of Upper and Lower Egypt . . . Merneptah.

46. This fellow also knew “Israel” Close-Up

47. “ Sea Peoples” Problems in the Days of Ramses III (1184-1153 B.C.)

48. Detail from previous slide