2. ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART &
ARTIFACTS
Ancient Egyptian Art that has been discovered is considered to be from approx. 3000
B.C. – 1790 B.C. Ancient Egyptian artwork depicts a lot of how people lived at the
time, worshipping Gods, Pharaohs, and other royal and highly regarded members of
society.
Ancient Egyptian artists and kings were some of the first people to demonstrate the
idea of personification (such as with the different gods i.e., Ra). This art form shows
the culturally rich world that took place once in Egypt, Africa.
Due to the time period, the nature of the art is generally on stone or some sort of
hard material that can either be carved or chiseled. Ancient Egyptian art is unique in
the fact that it so accurately captures the essence of life in Ancient Egypt.
It also proves how advanced Egyptians were in their thinking, from the tablets and
stones found with hieroglyphics, or ancient Egyptian written language, that has been
found on the stones
3. KING TUTANKHAMUN’S DEATH
MASK
King Tutankhamun’s Death Mask
Dynasty: Ancient Egyptian
Date: c. 1323 B.C.
Title: King Tutankhamun’s Death Mask
Medium: Gold
Dimensions: 54 x 39.3 x 49 cm.
Location of origin: Luxor, Egypt, (King’s
Tomb)
Current Location: Egyptian Museum in
Luxor, Egypt
Supreme Council of Antiquities
5. Statue of Thutmos III
Dynasty: Dynasty 18; Reign ofTutmose III
Date: ca. 1479-1425 B.C.
Medium: Granite
Current Location: Luxor Museum, Luxor, Egypt.
6.
7. HIEROGLYPHS
Ancient Egyptians communicated primarily with
papyrus scrolls and stone. On these forms of
written communication they used an form of
symbolic alphabet which is called hieroglyphics.
These are essentially the morphological symbol of
the word (i.e., a gourd to represent a drink, a cow
to represent livestock, etc.)
This is not only a simplistic way to communicate,
but it is also an artistic way to communicate as
well. A lot of Ancient Egyptian artifacts include
hieroglyphs that are very intricate and beautiful.
Source: Discovering Egypt
8. CARTOUCHE
A cartouche is the Ancient Egyptian way of
presenting a royal family members name to the
public. It is represented with a closed oval with a
line underneath, and contains the name written in
hieroglyphs in the middle.
These cartouches would be places along buildings,
specifically royal buildings, and engraved into
jewelry and royal burial sites. The pictures you see
here with cartouches were found in ancient burial
grouds in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.
When attatched to your coffin, it was believed that
it made it easier for the Gods to find you in the
afterlife.
Cartouche Information
10. MY CONNECTION TO
ANCIENT EGYPT
When I was younger I was
absolutely fascinated with
Ancient Egypt. It started
after I saw the movie The
Mummy with my parents in
2000. Ever since then I have
been obsessed with anything
ancient Egyptian!
I am so fascinated by
Ancient Egyptian culture,
that I started an “Egyptian
Club at the school I teach at.
I am the club sponsor!
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
11. MY
CARTOUCHE
One of my dreams is to have my
own cartouche necklace. I think
that this is such an interesting
and artistic way to have a name
necklace and it would be a
great conversation starter.
This cartouche says “Hannah”
in hieroglyphs. I think its cool
how it is still a palindrome even
in hieroglyphs.
Editor's Notes
This is the original title page from my PowerPoint that hasn’t been edited.
Script:
For this art project I decided to talk about Ancient Egyptian Art & Artifacts. I have been fascinated with Ancient Egyptian culture since I was a child and The Mummy came out, so I felt that this project not only would it meet the academic requirements, but it would also be something I am very interested in as well.
For this slide, the audio was recorded using an Apple Voice Memos App on an iPhone. The duration is 35 second. I did this because although the audio is less than 30 seconds, I wanted to accommodate students who may not be able to read that fast, and who want to read the title page information after the audio recording is done.
This is the original information page that gives a brief history on Ancient Egyptian Art & Artifacts, it has been unedited.
Script:
Since this is art that is from an Ancient Time period, the artists has to make do with what was available. This was also a royal family that the artists were working for, so along with the stone statues and the papyrus that they worked with, their main subjects were those of the pharaohs, or Egyptian kings, and the Gods whom the Ancient people worshipped.
For this slide, the audio was recorded using an Apple Voice Memos App on an iPhone. The duration is one minute and 30 seconds because of the amount of text on this slide. I did this because although the audio is less than 30 seconds, I wanted to accommodate students who may not be able to read that fast, and who want to read the page information after the audio recording is done.
For this slide I added the morph characters option, in which the wording from the previous slide morphs into the title and information on this slide. To add more to the PowerPoint, I also added a blue line that flies in on transition, and also added a fly in transition for the two pictures of Tutankhamun’s Death Mask as well.
Script:
I think that King Tutankhamun, or King Tut, is extremely prominent and representative not only of Ancient Egyptian culture, but of Royal culture as well. Due to its prominence even in household conversation, there is almost a lot of folklore that takes place around King Tut’s Death Mask, which is perfect for the art world.
For this slide, the audio was recorded using an Apple Voice Memos App on an iPhone. The duration is one minute. I did this because although the audio is less than 30 seconds, I wanted to make it a point to pause during the presentation and bring attention to the detail of King Tut’s Death Mask.
For this slide I added an animation for the decorative line (spin) and the picture (fly-in). I did this because I feel that with pages that contain something minimal, such as a title and a photo like this one, I didn’t want to overdo anything and add a SmartArt or anything similar. I figured if I wanted to add anything like that, I could space it out and do it on the next slide.
Script:
The Status of Thutmos III is not as well known as others, but I feel it is very representative of the culture that Ancient Egypt has. It shows a royal figure being immortalized in stone forever. Ancient Egyptian Royalty was all about immortalization in many shapes and forms, and carvings and art work was what was provided to the commoners of the land.
For this slide, the audio was recorded using an Apple Voice Memos App on an iPhone. The duration is 35 seconds. I did this because although the audio is less than 30 seconds, I wanted to accommodate and bring potentional talking point time for the art mentioned on the page.
For this slide, I added a SmartArt diagram for the information for the Statue of Thutmos III. I also added an animation in which the SmartArt bounces on screen. I felt that the blue color was great for the slide, because of the theme, and also because if I were to add more royal artifacts from Ancient Egypt, there is a lot of blue attributed with the Pharoahs of that time.
Script:
Right here is just some information that you can read for yourself on the Statue or Thutmos III, I will add that at this time period, statues were the prominent and “go to” so to speak for Royal Families. It wasn’t until later on after this time period where you would see the huge carvings on the Valley of the Kings, and the giant carvings on temples, things like that, things that are famous in Ancient Egypt.
For this slide, the audio was recorded using an Apple Voice Memos App on an iPhone. The duration is on minute. I did this because although the audio is less than 30 seconds, I wanted to provide adequate time for students to read the information on the page, and for them to be able to retain it without narration background noise.
I formatted this background to reflect a high resolution image of papyrus. I chose papyrus because in Ancient Egypt, when the educated people communicated, they would use papyrus scrolls in order to deliver written messages to one another. This was option Number Two on the directions page.
Script:
Ancient Egyptians obviously lived before texting and email, so they resorted to handwritten communication through an alphabet called hieroglyphs, which you will see on the next slide. They used papyrus and stone in order to “write” these symbols down and communicate with one another. And you will notice even in the hieroglyphs, it is still a form of art work in their alphabet.
On this page I added the Morph Words transition to get to this slide. I felt that this was most appropriate because there are a lot of similar characters on the previous page. This was option number four on the directions.
On this page I chose to do layered pictures, which is number 6 on the instructions. I felt like showing the different examples of cartouches would be beneficial in showing students’
For this assignment I used a Windows ASUS PC that uses PowerPoint 2016. I downloaded this YouTube video off of YouTube using YouTubeinMP4. After it downloaded, it automatically opened up in Windows Movie Maker. Since I make YouTube Makeup tutorials (please do not judge me) I am familiar with this app. I essentially let the clip play until it hit sixty seconds, then I used the trim option, and deleted the remaining amount of time left on the video clip. The original clip was approx.. 28 minutes long. I then saved the video as an MP4, because it was saved under another weird file named called a project.
After that, I came to PowerPoint, went to the insert tab, and inserted this video onto this slide from my computer! I also made it look like an oval because it more represents the cartouches that I speak about in the previous slides.
My personal connection to Ancient Egyptian culture.
Cartouche provided by http://www.virtual-egypt.com/newhtml/glyph/glyph.html
