Click this link for a listing of the major Egyptian gods and goddesses

What are the dates of the Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom?

What is the difference between Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt, culturally as well as geographically?

Who was King Menes (Narmer)? How was he significant to the history of Egypt?

What does the Predynastic period refer to?

Who did the watercolor copy of the wall painting from Hierakonpolis, Predynastic period, suggest that the ancient Egyptians had contact with? How?

How did Egyptians measure time? Why?

Discuss the stylistic conventions of the Palette of Narmer (Menes)

What is the significance of the Rosetta Stone?

Who were the main deities of ancient Egypt and how were they represented artistically?

What is a mastaba?

What is the difference between a mastaba and a pyramid?

Who was Imhotep?

For what unconventional purpose did the Egyptians use honey?

What were some of Imhotep's accomplishments?

Where do archaeologists believe Imhotep is buried? Why?

What is the significance of the papyrus half-column from the funerary complex of King Djoser (Zoser)?

What are the names of the three largest pyramids?

What are the pyramids made of (material)?

What is the significance ofthe arrangement of the pyramids?

What was the function of the pyramid?

What wasthe name of pharoah who commissioned the Sphinx?

Whose face is likely pictured on the Sphinx? Which pyramid is it located next to?

What is a sphinx? What is its Egyptian function?

Why was the "Bent Pyramid" created?

What is the name of the constellation associated with the pyramids?

At the Temple of Amon-Ra, Karnak, the Hypostle column capitals are shaped like?

Most Egyptian column shape are derived from what?

What was the function of the hypostyle hall?

Who was Hatshupset? Why was she significant?

What is extraordinary about extant statuary depicting Hatshupset? (appearance)

Who was Senemut?

How is Queen Hatshupset's mortuary complex relative the geophraphic environment within which it is set?

What is a pylon? Why is it shaped the way it is?

Who was Ramesses II?

Why is his face pictured on all 4 of the colossi at his tomb?

What is an atlantid? a caryatid?

What are some conventions of phaeronic depiction with regard to statuary? To painting?

Whay did the Egyptians have a "canon of porportions"?

What is significant about the seated staue of the Scribe?

What is significant about the Bust of Vizier Ankh-haf, from Giza?

What makes the extant sculpted Portrait of Sesotrisis III different from its Old Kingdom predecessors?

When did the Armana period begin?

Who was Akhenaten?

What makes Akhenaten different from most other pharoahs? (what did he do?)

How did Akhenaten's actions affect future generations of Egyptian artists?

What was the Book of the Dead?

What is a cartouche?

What aspects of the so called "Akhenaten Style" do we notice in the Bust of Nefretete?

How old was Tutankhamen? Who was his wife?

When was his tomb discovered? (year)

What was significant about the discovery of this tomb?

Discuss some of the stylistic conventions rendered on the painted chest recovered from the tomb of King Tut.

What is a Ushabti figure?

What aspects of the Akhenaten style are evident on the Death Mask of Tutankhamen?

What were the kingdom and Dynasty of King Tutankhamen?

What is a canopic jar?

Why did the Egyptians put so much "stuff" into the tombs of their pharaohs?

What wasthe effect of the discovery of the tomb of King Tut on American decorative style?

Mummies

In mummification, how was the brain removed?

What is natron?  What is it used for specfically?

What people were allowed to be mummified?

Accoriding to the film on mummies, the tombs of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs had a two-fold purpose--what were they?

Where in Egypt are most mummies found? (don't say "in the sand!")

What was palm wine used for in mummification?

What was the origin of the so-called "mummy's curse"?

What was the significance of the South American mummies found at Chucharo?

Why were magical amulets inserted into the bandages of mummies?

Why were most of the pharonic tombs left "unfinished"?

What year were the tombs of Seti I, Thutmose III and Ramesses the Great discovered?  WHo doscovered them?

What happened to the internal organs of the deceased during mummification?

Where was the world's oldest mummy found?  How old is it?

What was the name of the Soviet leader that was mummified?

What chemical did the Soviets predominately use to mummify him?

Why was this person's mummy so pale?

Why did the Soviets mummify this person?