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Art in Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt
Predynastic Early Dynastic Old Kingdom First Intermediate Period Middle Kingdom Second Intermediate Period
New Kingdom Third Intermediate Period Late Period Macedonian-Ptolemaic Period Roman Period

Art History
Books by Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe

Eye and Art in Ancient Greece: A Study in Archaeoaesthetics
Harvey Miller, 2018
Print Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Rome: Growth and Expansion, Rivalry and Murder
Harvey Miller, 2008
Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome
Brill, 2004

Fiction
Novels by Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe

The Jerusalem Project
Story One in the Reset Series
Amazon, 2022
The Woman From Eden
Story Two in the Reset Series
Amazon, 2022
Ned Reisner’s Chronicle
Story Three in the Reset Series
Amazon, 2022

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Contents Page
Prehistoric Art
ART IN ANCIENT EGYPT
Art in the Ancient Near East
Art in Ancient Greece
Art in Ancient Rome
Early Christian & Byzantine Art
Art in Early Europe
Islamic Art
Early Medieval Art
Gothic Art
Renaissance Art in Italy
Renaissance Art outside Italy
Baroque Art
18th-Century Art
19th-Century Art
20th-Century Art
Contemporary Art
Art in East Asia
Art in India & Southeast Asia
Art in Africa
Art in the Americas
Art in Oceania
Prints & Photography
Art History Research Resources
Art History News & Blogs

Art History
eBooks by Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe

An Introduction to Art and Culture in Ancient Egypt.
Art in Ancient Egypt Volume 1
Apple Books, 2019
A Survey Art in Ancient Egypt from Predynastic Times to the Graeco-Roman Period.
Art in Ancient Egypt Volume 2
Apple Books, 2019
Art’s History in Europe Part 1: Prehistoric Europe, Egypt, Near East, Aegean, Greece
Apple Books, 2014
The Visual Experience of ART
Apple Books, 2012
Venus of Willendorf
Apple Books, 2013
853 Beautiful Victorian Paintings
Apple Books, 2014

ANCIENT EGYPT
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Ancient Egyptian Art (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

An Artisan's Tomb in New Kingdom Egypt
Egypt in the Late Period (ca. 712–332 B.C.)
Egypt in the Middle Kingdom (2030–1640 B.C.)
Egypt in the New Kingdom (ca. 1550–1070 B.C.)
Egypt in the Old Kingdom (ca. 2649–2150 B.C.)
Egypt in the Third Intermediate Period (1070–712 B.C.)
Egyptian Amulets
Egyptian Modern Art
Egyptian Red Gold
Egyptian Tombs: Life Along the Nile
Harry Burton (1879–1940): The Pharaoh's Photographer
The Housemistress in New Kingdom Egypt: Hatnofer
Kings and Queens of Egypt
List of Rulers of Ancient Egypt and Nubia
List of Rulers of Ancient Sudan
Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century Art
Photographers in Egypt
Precious Metals from Tell Basta
The Private Tombs North of the Senwosret III Pyramid Complex, Dahshur
The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III in the Cemeteries of Dahshur
Queens and Princesses in the Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III, Dahshur
Roman Egypt
The Temples of Senwosret III at Dahshur
The Tomb of Wah
Tutankhamun's Funeral
Wadi Kubbaniya (ca. 17,000–15,000 B.C.)
The Year One

L’Egypte par David Roberts (lithographic prints produced in the 1840s)
The Virtual Egyptian Museum, a venture of the California Institute of World Archaeology (CIWA)
Egyptian Art (Mark Harden's Artchive)
Egyptians in the BBC's Ancient History section

Development of Pyramids

Prehistoric pit graves
Mastaba tomb, Saqqara
Djoser's Step Pyramid
Meidum Pyramid
Bent Pyramid of Dashur
The Great Pyramid
Khaefre's Pyramid and Sphinx
New Kingdom Pyramid, Deir el-Medina

The Private Lives of the Pyramid Builders
Building the Great Pyramid: Great Debate
The Great Pyramid: Gateway to Eternity: Egyptian World of the Dead
A Short History of Pyramidology: Fringe beliefs
Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
Sacred Animals of Ancient Egypt
Treasures of Tutankhamun

Inlaid Throne
Panel from the back of the king's throne
Tutankhamun's bed
Headrest
Scene from a painted chest
A Ushabti figure
The king's mannequin
The gold mask
The goddess Selket
Stoppers from the Canopic Chest
Senet Game
The king's firelighter

Twelve Great Dynasties of Egypt
Egypt: The End of a Civilisation
Akhenaten and the Amarna Period
The End of the Amarna Period
Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis: a royal feud?: Endless death
Primary Sources of the Old Kingdom
The Fall of the Egyptian Old Kingdom: End of a dynasty
Ramesses the Great
Voices from Ancient Egypt Gallery

The Pyramids and Temples at Gizeh (the complete Contents of W.M. Flinders Petrie's book, 1883)

Introduction
1. Object and means.
2. Instruments.
3. Methods and measurement.
4. Excavations.
5. Co-ordinates.
6. Outside of Great Pyramid.
7. Inside of Great Pyramid.
8. Outside the Second pyramid.
9. Inside the Second pyramid.
10. Outside of Third pyramid.
11. Inside of Third pyramid.
12. Lesser Pyramids of Gizeh.
13. Position and orientation of Pyramids.
14. The Granite Temple, &c.
15. Tombs of Gizeh.
16. Notes on other Pyramids.
17. Historical notes.
18. Architectural ideas of builders.
19. Mechanical methods of Builders.
20. Values of the cubit and digit.
21. Theories compared with facts.
22. History of the Great Pyramid, and its design.
Appendices

Great Pyramid of Giza Research Association

Introduction and Overview of the Great Pyramid
Picture Tour of the Great Pyramid
How the Great Pyramid of Giza could shine like a star
The interior passages of value of PI
Measurements of the Great Pyramid
Napoleon's strange experience in the Kings Chamber
The man who was almost decapitated in the pyramid
Sir Issac Newton's study of the Great Pyramid of Giza
An early account of a visit to the Great Pyramid
The hidden chamber and strange metal plate
Artifacts and wood discovered in the Great Pyramid
Exploring above the King's Chamber
Pyramidology - Prophetic time lines in the Great Pyramid
Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid of Giza
The use of meteorites by the Ancient Egyptian
The pyramid texts, coffin texts, and Book of the Dead
The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Book of the Dead
What draws people to the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Ushabtis

A World of Obelisks (PBS Nova Online Presentation)

Luxor
Cairo
Istanbul
Rome
Paris
London
New York
Raising the Obelisk

Egyptian Art in the Gregorian Egyptian Museum (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
Ancient Egyptian Photo Galleries (through The Freeman Institute)

Tutankhamen Collection 32 Photographs
Miscellaneous Collection 31 Photographs
Sphinx of Giza and Pyramids Collection 30 Photographs
Miscellaneous Collection 32 Photographs
Miscellaneous Collection 30 Photographs
Miscellaneous Collection 33 Photographs
Akhenaton (Amenhotep IV) Collection 22 Photographs
Miscellaneous Collection 20 Photographs

Ancient Egyptian Quarries (Dr James H. Harrell), with links to

Background Information
Hardstone Quarries With Color Images of Stones
Softstone Quarries With Color Images of Stones
Index for Regional Quarry Maps
Access to the Ancient Egyptian Stone Collection
List of Color Images of Quarry Stones

Catalogue General Antiquites Egyptiennes du Musee du Caire: The Royal Mummies (Le Caire: Imprimerie de L'institut Francais D'archeologie Orientale, 1912) (through the University of Chicago Library)
Egypt (Highlights of the collection of the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago)
Egyptian Collection (British Museum)

Early Egypt 11000-2600 BC
Egyptian sculpture, about 2686 BC-AD 396
Egyptian life and death 1400-1300 BC
Egyptian death and afterlife: mummies, about 2686 BC-AD 395
Sudan, Egypt and Nubia, Prehistory-AD 1000s

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers by Amelia B. Edwards. Complete contents of the book first published in 1891, with illustrations (through A Celebration of Women Writers)

The Explorer in Egypt
The Buried Cities of Ancient Egypt
Portrait-Painting in Ancient Egypt
The Origin of Portrait Sculpture and the History of the "KA"
Egypt the Birthplace of Greek Decorative Art
The Literature and Religion of Ancient Egypt
The Hieroglyphic Writing of the Ancient Egyptians
Queen Hatasu, and Her Expedition to the Land of Punt [i.e. Hatshepsut]

The Step Pyramid Complex of Djoser (University of Pennsylvania)
The Giza Plateau Mapping Project
The Giza Archives Project (through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation (the complete records of Howard Carter's excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun made available online through the Griffith Institute, Oxford), with links to

Gallery of Photographs (first of 93 pages of the original photographic record of the excavation by Harry Burton)
Photographs showing work in Tutankhamun's tomb
Photographs by anonymous photographers, showing scenes outside the tomb
John Ross’s colour photographs of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun
The Search for Tutankhamun (Howard Carter's records of the five seasons of excavations, financed by Lord Carnarvon, in the Valley of the Kings 1915 - 1922)

Monuments in Egypt (through Egyptian Ministry of Tourism), including, besides Mosques and Islamic Monuments, Christian Churches and Monuments, Graeco-Roman Monuments, the following links to Pharaonic Monuments:

The Pyramids: Design and Construction

The Step Pyramid
The True Pyramid
The Construction of the Pyramids

The Temple of Deir el Bahari
Abu Simbel near Aswan
Alabaster Sphinx at Memphis
Belt al-Wali Near New Kalabsha
The Caesareum of Alexandria
Catacombs of Kom es-Shouqafa in Alexandria
Causeway of Unas
Colossi of Memnon
Colossus of Ramesses II
Oasis: Fayoum - Medinet El-Fayoum (Faiyum)
Temple of Dioysias in Fayoum
Early Kingdom Mastabas
Aswan: Edfu, the City
Aswan: Elephantine Island
The Enclosure Wall at the Step Pyramid of King Djoser at Saqqara (Sakkara)
Geziret Faraum
The Great Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu)
The Great Sphinx
Aswan: Kalabsha Temple at New Kalabsha
Kom Ushim: Ruins of Karanis in the Fayoum
The Temple Complex of Karnak in Thebes (Modern Luxor)
Aswan: Kiosk of Qertassi (Kertassi) at New Karabsha
Pyramid of Snefru at Maidum
Aghurmi Temple near Siwa
Temple of Amenhotep III
The Persian Shafts
Aswan: Philae Temple Complex (Island from the Time of Re, Pilak)
The Mortuary Temple at the Step Pyramid of King Djoser at Saqqara (Sakkara)
The Pyramid Complex of Menkaure
Pyramid of Hawara (Labyrinth) in the Fayoum
The Pyramid of Chephren
Pyramid of Snefru at Maidum
Pyramid of Sekhemkhet
Pyramid of Teti
Pyramid of Unas
The Abusir Necropolis
The Pyramid Field of Dahshur
The Ramesseum
The Serapeum
South Saqqara
The Step Pyramid of King Djoser at Saqqara
Sun-Temples of Abu Ghurab
Temple of Narmuthis in the Fayoum
Abydos
Temple of Deir el Bahari
The Temple of Dendera
Oasis: Kharga - The Temple of Dush
Oasis: Kharga - The Temple of Hibis
The Temple of Luxor
Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu
Temple of Taposiris Magna near Abusir
Three Minor Pyramids - Giza
Mastaba of Ankh-mahor
Mastaba of Kagemni
Mastaba of Mereruka
Mastaba of Princess Idut
Mastaba of Ptah-Hotep & Akhti-Hotep
Mastaba of Queen Nebe
Mastaba of Ti
Aswan: The Tombs of the Nobles
Tombs of the Nobles
Aswan: The Unfinished Obelisk
Valley of the Kings - Tombs of the Pharaohs

Egyptian Virtual Museum (through Egyptian Ministry of Tourism), with links to:

Pre-Dynastic
Fourth Dynasty
Middle Kingdom
Eleventh Dynasty
Eighteenth Dynasty
The Tut Collection
Nineteenth Dynasty

Theban Mapping Project, A Project of the American Research Center in Egypt

Valley of the Kings, West Bank, Luxor

Centre d'Études Alexandrines
The Tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep (Greg Reeder)
Top of page Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons

Art of Ancient Egypt (Wikipedia)

Prehistoric Egypt
Early Dynastic Period
Old Kingdom
First Intermediate Period
Middle Kingdom
Second Intermediate Period
New Kingdom
Third Intermediate Period
Late Period
Ptolemaic Period

Wikimedia Commons Free Content Images
Images with no significant legal restrictions relative to freedom of use, redistribution and modification of content

Ancient Egypt
Maps of Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian art
Egyptian historical periods

Predynastic
Protodynastic
Early Dynastic
Old Kingdom
First Intermediate Period
Middle Kingdom
Second Intermediate Period
New Kingdom
Third Intermediate Period
Late Period
Ptolemaic Dynasty
Roman Egypt

Pharaohs
Queens
Princes
Egyptian Architecture

Mastabas
Obelisks in Egypt
Pyramidion
Pyramids of Egypt

Abu Rawash
Pyramid of Amenemhat I
Bent Pyramid
Black Pyramid of Amenemhat III
Pyramid of Djedkare Isesi
Pyramid of Djoser
Giza pyramid complex
Great Pyramid of Giza
Hawara Pyramid of Amenemhat III
Pyramid of Henutsen
Pyramid of Iput I
Khafre's Pyramid
Pyramid of Khuit II
Lepsius I Pyramid
Meidum Pyramid
Pyramid of Neferhetepes
Pyramid of Neferirkare
Pyramid of Nyuserre Ini
Pyramid of Pepi II
Red Pyramid
Pyramid of Sahure
Pyramid of Sekhemkhet
Pyramid of Senusret I
Pyramid of Senusret II
Pyramid of Senusret III
Pyramid of Teti
Pyramid of Unas
Pyramid of Userkaf

Abu Simbel
Abydos
Temple of Debod
Deir el-Bahari
Dendera Temple
Temple of Dendur
Edfu Temple
Esna Temple
Great Temple of Aten
Kalabsha
Karnak temple complex

Temple of Amun Ra
Temple of Aten
Temple of Menthu
Temple of Mut
Temple of Ptah

Temple of Kom Ombo
Luxor Temple
Medamud
Medinet Habu
Memphis temple of Hathor
Memphis temple of Ptah
Nyuserre sun temple
Philae
Temple of Isis in Philae
Ramesseum
Serapeum

Archaeological sites in Egypt

Abu Mena
Abu Rawash
Abusir
Abydos
Amarna
Antinopolis
Athribis
Avaris
Beni Hassan
Bubastis
Coptos
Dashur
Deir el-Bahari
Deir el-Medina
El-Lahun
Gebel el-Silsila
Giza
Giza pyramid complex
Hawara
Heliopolis, Egypt
Hermonthis
Hermopolis Magna
Hierakonpolis
Karanis
Karnak temple complex
Kom el-Hettan
Lisht
Malkata
Meidum
Memphis
Nag Hammadi
Naucratis
Oxyrhynchus
Sais, Egypt
Saqqara
Tanis Royal Acropolis
Tanis, Egypt
Theban Necropolis
Tod
Tuna el-Gebel
Valley of the Kings
Valley of the Queens

Alexandria National Museum
Ashmolean Museum
Ägyptisches Museum Berlin
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
British Museum
Brooklyn Museum
Egyptian Museum (Cairo)
Nationalmuseet Copenhagen
Hermitage Museum
Museum of the Ancient Orient
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Karnak open air museum
Ägyptisches Museum Georg Steindorff Leipzig
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Louvre
Luxor Museum
Musée d'archéologie méditerranéenne de Marseille
Memphis open air museum
Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst München
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Musée Joseph Déchelette de Roanne
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (replicas)
Royal Ontario Museum
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Ancient Egyptian sculptures

Reliefs
Sarcophagi
Statues
Statuettes
Wood carving

Egyptian sculpture by subject

Block statues
Sitting couples
Ushabti

Funerary steles
Palermo stone
Rosetta stone
Serekh steles
Shen ring steles
Amarna art
Treasures of Tutankhamun
Ancient Egyptian ivory
Ancient Egyptian Jewellery
Ancient Egyptian pottery
Paintings from Egypt

Tomb of Rekhmire
Sarenput II
Tomb of Sennedjem
Tomb of Amenemhêt
Tomb of Horemhab
Tomb of Menna
Tomb of Nakht
Tomb of Nebamun
Tomb of Nebamun and Ipuki
Tomb of Nefertari
Tomb of Userhêt
Fayum mummy portraits

Kingdom of Kush
Nubia

Maps of Nubia
Nubian antiquities in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Nubian antiquities in the Brooklyn Museum