PREHISTORIC,

MESOPOTAMIAN
, AND EGYPTIAN
ART
 Prehistoric Time

“Before history” or
“before written history”
 Prehistoric Artworks

30, 000 years ago Paleolithic Period

Learning to use stone tools
Most common drawings are ANIMALS
Some are simple geometric figures
New Stone Age
-humans learned to toil the land
-developed permanent communities
-refined their stone tools
Megaliths and Stonehenge rocks
A mysterious artifact made during the Stone Age
In the Philippines, one of the oldest known
artifacts was discovered in Angono, Rizal

127 stylized depictions of humans

Early Civilizations

Humans became less These civilizations are

nomadic and started found in Mesopotamia
settling in permanent (present-day Iraq, Kuwait, Syria,
Turkey and Iran, Egypt, India, and
communities China)
Art of Ancient Mesopotamia
The Sumerians were one of the most dominant
of the groups found in this region
First to develop a writing system called
CUNEIFORM
Cuneiforms
Art of Ancient Mesopotamia
The Sumerians also built megaliths called
ZIGGURATS
Art of Ancient Egypt
-life centered on their gods
-led by the pharaohs, believing
that they are the gods themselves
The great respect for the Egyptians with their gods
is the
PYRAMID

PYRAMID
Egyptian’s Architecture
The pyramids were used as tombs for pharaohs

Servants are buried alive

PYRAMIDS OF
GIZA
Sarcophagus
The mummified body of the pharaoh was placed in a
coffin
Egyptian Drawing and Paintings
 Illustrates the life of
the pharaoh and
tell stories about
their gods and
goddesses
 Egyptian artists had
to draw the human
body as a whole
 The head, arms, legs,
and feet were drawn
from the side while
the eyes and the
shoulders are facing
front
EGYPTIAN MURAL
The system of writing
in ancient Egyptians.
It is a combination of
logography, which is
a writing system that
uses characters that
represent words or
phrases and
alphabetic, a writing
system composed of a
set of letters
HIEROGLYPH
EGYPTIAN SCULPTURES
Used to safeguard the pharaoh’s body
after death.
Statues in the image of the pharaoh were
sculpted and were placed near the
sarcophagus
In case the mummified body was stolen or
destroyed, the soul of the pharaoh can
reincarnate and use the stone statues of
wall paintings as a substitute body.
EGYPTIAN SCULPTURES

THE GREAT SPHINX

SPHINX – a mythical creature that has the head of

a MAN and a body of a LION
THE GREAT SPHINX is considered to be
the world’s largest monolithic statue.
The face of the Sphinx represents the
Pharaoh Khafra

73.5 m long, 19.3 m wide, and 20.22 m high

  Discuss the Prehistoric time and
GROUP 1 Prehistoric art through a role play
presentation

 Discuss the Mesopotamian art through

GROUP 2 a role play presentation

 Discuss the Egyptian art through a role

GROUP 3 play presentation