III.1. Egyp)an Art
Kings, Power, and the Divine
c. 3100 BCE ‘Unifica0on’ of Egypt under King Narmer (or Menes)
c. 2800–2200 BCE Old Kingdom
(Memphis capital)
c. 2200–2052 BCE Intermediate Period
c. 2052–1567 Middle Kingdom
(Thebes capital)
c. 1567–1085 BCE New Kingdom
(Thebes capital, except during the Amarna period)
c. 1085–713 BCE Intermediate Period
c. 712–332 BCE Late Period
(foreign dynas0es: Nubian, Lybians, Persian)
c. 332–30 BCE Ptolemaic Period
Waset / Thebes
Luxor and Karnak
(Valley of the Kings)
Faiyum
Shedet / Krokodilopolis / Arsinoë
Memphis
Cairo (Al-Qāhira )
Alexandria (founded
331 BCE)
Amarna
Nekhen / Hierakonpolis
(Le\) the crown of Lower Egypt and (right) the crown of Upper Egypt
Wall 0les from the funerary apartments of
king Djoser, ca. 2630–2611 BCE
Great Pyramid of Giza, Pharaoh
Khufu, ca. 2580–2560 BC
Valley of the Kings, in use from
ca. 16th to 11th century BCE