CAS AR 100 Midterm: AR 100 Midterm 2 Study Guide Lectures 10-12

• School: Boston University
• Department: Archaeology
• Course: CAS AR 100
• Professor: Michael Danti

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Ancient egypt- king tut: history divided into three golden ages of egyptian civilization: old, middle and new kingdoms. 2: pharaoh as divine dictator, moved country"s capital, empire declines rapidly, tutankhamun, archaeologists searched extensively form tomb, pit 54. Theodore davis thinks they"ve exhausted valley of kings: lord carnarvon howard carver found tomb in nov. 1922, small for a royal burial, king was buried in haste, broken leg, scoliosis, malaria. Early egypt: the rosetta stone, napoleon started archaeological surveys of egypt, sparking interest, leads to the discovery of the rosetta stone, a decree if ptolemy v from march 27, 196 bc, trilingual inscription in greek demotic and egyptian. Associated with sneferu: true pyramids common dynasty 4, the three great pyramids at giza khufu (cheops), khafre (chephren), and menkaure (mycerinus) e. In dynasty 5 and 6 the pyramids get smaller, but the temples associated with them are more complex and we begin to get inscription (pyramid.