APAH Unit 2 - Ancient Near East - Mesopotamia, Egypt

Unit 2a - Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia

• Mesopotamian PowerPoint 
• Gardner's chapter on Mesopotamia
• Images 13-30ish of the 250 (full images)
• Images 13-30ish of the 250 (grid with identifiers)
• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at the Met
• Mesopotamia -- 8000 to 2000 BCE
• Mesopotamia -- 2000 to 1000 BCE
• The Met's Overview of Mesopotamian Art
• Uruk, the First City (essay from the Met)
• Gilgamesh (essay from the Met)
• Uruk, the First City (video from Annenberg Learner)
• The Epic of Gilgamesh (video from Annenberg Learner)
• The Standard of Ur -- A History of the World in 100 Objects (British Museum)
• Apadana of Darius and Xerxes -- How Art Made the World
• Start at 6:45 in the this clip
• View from beginning to 7:05 in this clip

Unit 2b - Ancient Near East, Egypt

• Egyptian PowerPoint
• Gardner's Art through the Ages on Egypt
• Kahoot on Mesopotamia and Egypt -- Game Pin: 0276500
• Egyptian Immortality Jigsaw Activity
• CANOPIC JARS
• PYRAMIDS
• FUNERARY AMULET
• TOMB SCULPTURE
• SHABTI FIGURES
• Symbol and Magic in Egyptian Art, consider looking at some of the following chapters -
• Chapter 3 on Size
• Chapter 4 on Materials
• Chapter 5 on Color
• Chapter 7 on Numbers
• Smithsonian, "New Evidence that King Tut Was Born out of Incest"
• Smithsonian, "How King Tut Died"
• National Geographic, "King Tut's Mysterious Death Examined"
• Met Museum, "Excavations: Temple of Hatshepsut"

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