2. People
Communities were made up of:
•Hunters and fishermen
•Soldiers
•Slaves
•Priests
•Scribes
•Artists and craftsmen
Fishing Scene
•Farmers and herdsmen Tomb of Kenamun
About 1430 BC
3. People
Artists, craftsmen and scribes were
honored and admired.
•Scribe.
Scribes wrote on papyrus.
•Papyrus
Seated Scribe
Painted Limestone
About 2500 BC
6. Great Pylon of the Horus Temple
Architecture
•Located: west side of Nile River
•237-57 BCE
•Two large geometric
“mountains”
•Statues and carvings
•Floor was painted to depict a
river
•Ceiling – sun rays and stars
•Horus and Hathor