ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Bent Pyramid, Shadoof, Sneferu

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: ARCH 100
• Professor: Dennis Sandgathe

Document Summary

7k bp: merinde benisalama: set stage for civilizaion. 5000 bce- 3100:: badarian: 5k-4k bc; naqada: 4k-3. 1k bce; Weight for carrying water, egypian wriing went from pictures to symbols, elaboraive potery appears. By late/end predynasic: litle kingdoms of egypt united into lower egypt (north, lower of river) and. Narmer/menes: many myths and legends about him, but some truths. First human" king was aha, may be narmer"s son. Narmer"s palete: narmer is seen to wear both crowns. Between predynasic and greek rule, 2770 years, egypian rule divided into eight periods: see slides, don"t remember. Early dynasic: irst dynasty, pictures to symbols, elaboraive tombs. The old kingdom: 2700 -2200 bc, golden age, lots of gold. King djoser: imhotep is an architecture of tomb. Old kingdom: prosperous pharaoh, manifestaion of horus the hawk, later ra of sun, and osiris of underworld. 4th dynasty: 2575 -2465 bc largest true pyramid.