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Ancient Egypt Slide Script Pre-slides: Focus slide; “And now, it’s time for Art Lit” Slide 1: Words We Will Use Today Symbol: Something that stands for something else, especially a letter, figure, or sign that represents a real object or idea. Hieroglyphs: Ancient Egyptians wrote by using picture words they called hieroglyphics. Hieroglyph symbols that could represent letters, whole words, sounds or names. Relief: A relief is a sculpture that is carved into part of a wall or structure. Reliefs were generally painted. Slide 2 – Ancient Egypt Today we’re going back in time five thousand years to learn about the art of the Ancient Egyptians! Egyptian civilization developed along the lush, fertile banks of the Nile, the world’s longest river. The paintings and statues of Ancient Egypt survived for many thousands of years because of the extremely dry climate of the area and because they were sealed off in stone tombs away from the air. We know what Ancient Egyptians looked like, what kind of clothes they wore, what jobs they worked, and what they considered important because we have their art to study. Slide 3 – Nefertiti During the whole 3,000 years that the civilization we call Ancient Egypt ruled in the land of the Nile, their art didn’t change very much. Much of their art is stylized, which means it doesn’t really look like real life but has a huge amount of symbolism in what was shown. They also created amazingly realistic sculptures. Here is a painting and a sculpted bust of the same woman - Queen Nefertiti. What differences do you see? (examples - stylized vs realistic. Painting vs sculpture) Slide 4 – Sphinx and Ramses II The Ancient Egyptians created many famous gigantic sculptures and temples that still survive. Some examples include the Pyramids, the Great Sphinx of Giza, and the statues of Ramses II at the Abu Simbel temples. How tall do you think these people are? Over 60 feet tall, which is like a 6 story building! Slide 5 – King Tut Funerary Mask Although they are famous for their giant statues, the Egyptians also carved smaller, more ornate sculptures and jewelry. They used many materials including alabaster, ivory, limestone, basalt, wood gilded with gold, and sometimes even solid gold. This is the funerary mask of a famous pharaoh named Tutankhamen – you might know him as King Tut. The collar is made with semiprecious stones and the stripes on the headdress are made with blue glass. The rest of the mask is made from twenty-four pounds of solid gold! Ancient Egypt Artist Slide Script Slide 6 – Painted Hieroglyphics A lot of Ancient Egyptian art includes Hieroglyphics, which was their way of writing using picture words to tell a story. One of the goals in writing hieroglyphics was that the writing would look like art and be beautiful to look at. This tomb art includes a painting of many hundreds of hieroglyphs that tell the story of the central figure in the image. Hieroglyphics was a very complicated way of writing. How many letters are in our alphabet? (26) Can you believe that with hieroglyphics, thousands of individual symbols could represent either a sound, a word or an entire phrase. For example, a hieroglyph of an eye could mean the word "eye,” the letter "I," or the phrase “to make or do.” Slide 7 – Carved Hieroglyphics In addition to being painted, hieroglyphics were also carved into walls, statues and sculptures. When they are carved in this way, hieroglyphics are called a relief. Reliefs were usually painted and could be extremely colorful. They mostly used the colors blue, black, red, green, and gold in their paintings. Slide 8 – Our Project Today we will make our own hieroglyphic relief carving! Ready? (play video) Continue to Project Steps…. Ancient Egypt Artist Slide Script