Ancient Egypt The New Kingdom: Overview
Palaeolithic 700, 000 -7000 BCE Saharan Neolithic 8800 -4700 Early Middle Late 8800 -6800 6600 -5100 -4700 Predynastic Lower Egypt Neolithic Maadi Upper Egypt Badarian Naqada III 5300 -3000 5300 -4000 -3200 4400 -4000 -3500 (Amratian) 3500 -3200 (Gerzean) 3200 -3000 (Dynasty 0) 1 ST Persian Period (27 th-30 th) 2 d Persian Period Ptolemaic Period Macedonian 332 -310 Ptolemaic 305 -30 Roman 525 -404 343 -332 332 -30 30 BCE-642 CE
Heliacal Rising of Sirius
Poetical Stele of Thutmose III (18 th Dyn) from Karnak (1. 7 m); Cairo Museum (Simpson 351 -54) Victory stele of Thutmose III (18 th Dyn) from Temple of Amun at Gebel Barkal (1. 72 m); Boston, MFA
Details of the Annals of Tuthmoses III at Karnak (18 th Dyn)
The Battle of Megiddo: Thutmose III smiting Canaanite enemies on the seventh pylon at Karnak (18 th Dyn)
Hatshepsut’s obelisk at Karnak (18 th Dyn)
Mummy of Seqenenre Taa (17 th Dyn) Kamose’s second stela, Luxor Museum
Seated Statue of Hatshepsut (limestone, 1. 95 m) and Hatshepsut in a Devotional Attitude (granite, 2. 42) from Thebes (18 th Dyn), Metropolitan Museum
The three temples at Deir el Bahari: part of Hatshepsut’s temple (18 th Dyn) on left, Tuthmosis III’s temple (18 th Dyn) in center, and Mentuhotep II’s temple (11 th Dyn) on right High Steward Senenmut holding the princess Neferure (granite, 0. 73 m) from Karnak, Temple of Amun (18 th Dyn); British Museum
Tuthmosis III (18 th Dyn) from Karnak (greywacke, 0. 90 m); Luxor Museum
Head of Amenhotep II (18 th Dyn) (Black granite, 19 cm); Metropolitan Museum Colossal head of Amenhotep II (18 th Dyn) from the Temple of Mut at Karnak (granite, 2. 87 m); British Museum
House shrine of Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their children from Amarna (18 th Dyn) (limestone, 32, 5 cm); Egyptian Museum, Berlin
The Middle East during the Amarna Period
Colossal head of Ramesses II (19 th Dyn) from Abu Simbel Head of Ramesses I (19 th Dyn); Museum of Fine Arts Mask of Tutankhamun’s mummy (18 th Dyn) from his tomb (11 kg of gold); Egyptian Museum
The Middle East during the Amarna Period
