ANCIENT GREEK ART

 Paintings and sculptures are highly-stylized and

symbolic.
 Requires amounts of time, money and labour
 Emphasis on life after death and the
preservation of knowledge of the past.

Mastaba Tombs

 Arabic: “Stone-bench”
 Chamber of the dead; house of stability;
house of eternity; eternal house
 Burial sites marker of eminent Egyptians during
Egypt's Early Dynastic Period and Old Kingdom

Saqqara

 Served as the necropolis (cemetery) for

the ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis.
 Contains numerous pyramids
 Contains numerous mastaba tombs

Pyramid of Djoser or Step Pyramid

 Egypt’s first pyramid

 Tributes to the memory of the Egyptian kings
 Become synonymous with the country
 Stacking mastabas on top of one another,
progressively making them smaller
 Pyramid of Pharaoh Cheops
 aka Great Pyramid of Giza
 475 ft. high and 738 ft. wide
 The oldest of the Seven Wonders of
the Ancient World
 Primarily built for Pharaoh Khufu
 It took around 27 years to build

Statues for the tombs

Statue of King Djoser Temple of Abu Simbel

Pharaoh Khafre with the lion body at The Great Sphinx at Giza

REFERENCES:

Mark, J. J. (2021, April 11). Ancient Egyptian Architecture. World History Encyclopedia.
https://bit.ly/2PWuozz

Mastaba | funerary structure. (n.d.). Encyclopedia Britannica.

https://www.britannica.com/technology/mastaba

Handwerk, B. (2021, February 10). Pyramids at Giza. History.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/giza-pyramids

MIKAILA ALFA C. SOLON, BSAIS-3