The Old Kingdom is the name commonly given to that period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization in complexity and achievement – this was the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods, which mark the...
The late Old Kingdom in Egypt witnessed a gradual breakdown of the central government headquartered at Memphis and a concomitant increase in the power of provincial leaders. One reflection of this transfer of power is the large rock-cut tombs constructed near the regional centers...
When the Pyramids Were Built: Egyptian Art of the Old Kingdom by Dorothea Arnold New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Rizzoli, distributed by St. Martin's Press 144 pages, 130 color illustrations, $35. When the tomb of King Tutankhamun and its treasures...
Archaeologists unveiled the tombs Tuesday of a pharaonic butler and a scribe that have been buried for more than 3,000 years _ proof, they say, that Egypt's sands still have secrets to reveal.Although archaeologists have been exploring Egypt intensively for more than 150 years, some...
Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled the tombs of a pharaonic butler and scribe that have been buried for more than 3,000 years _ proof, one says, that Egypt's sands still have secrets to reveal.Although archaeologists have been exploring Egypt intensively for more than 150 years, some...
