THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS FALL 2017 CHRISTOPHER WREN ASSOCIATION COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY Dr. George DeRise WEEK 2 Professor, Mathematics (retired) Thomas Nelson Community College ANIMAL MUMMIES MONICA THE SERAPEUM MARIETTE 1851 APIS BULL GREAT SPHINX PYRAMIDS OF GIZA c. 2589-2503 BC DYNASTY 4 KHAFRE AS SPHINX DYNASTY 4 KHEPHREN 2558-2533 BC MARIETTE c. 1860 MARIETTE EXCAVATIONS, 1871; MEIDUM RAHOTEP NOFRET DYNASTY 4 HESY-RA SHEIKH EL-BELED DYNASTY 3 DYNASTY 5 PYRAMID OF UNAS DYNASTY 5 c. 2360BC PYRAMID TEXTS c. 2350 B.C. MASPERO 1880 OVER 700 UTTERANCES ANTE CHAMBER, WEST WALL AND NORTH WALL TOMB OF MERERUKA DYNASTY 6, c. 2330 MERERUKA- SPEARING A HIPPO MERERUKA AND HIS WIFE TOMB OF MERERUKA TOMB OF MERERUKA FROM SW - ENTRANCE TOMB OF MERERUKA - SAQQARA THE TITLES OF MERERUKA ALABASTER JAR PEPI I DYNASTY 6. c. 2300 BALTIMORE HAREM CONSPIRACY 1 (?) 6TH-DYNASTY KING PEPI I BIOGRAPHICAL INSCRIPTION TOMB OF AN OFFICIAL - WENI CEMETERY AT ABYDOS. 'WHEN A CASE WAS BROUGHT IN THE ROYAL HAREM AGAINST THE ROYAL WIFE WERETYAMTES IN SECRET, HIS PERSON [THE KING] ENSURED THAT I WENT DOWN TO HEAR IT ALONE. NO VIZIER NOR ANY OFFICIAL WERE THERE, BUT ONLY MYSELF …. I ALONE SERVED AS SCRIBE, ALONG WITH ONLY ONE OTHER CHIEF JUSTICE … IT HAD NEVER HAPPENED THAT THE EQUIVALENT [OF ME] HEARD A SECRET OF THE ROYAL HAREM EVER BEFORE. BUT HIS PERSON [THE KING] ENSURED THAT I HEARD (IT) BECAUSE I WAS EXCELLENT IN THE HEART OF HIS PERSON, MORE THAN ANY OF HIS OFFICIALS, MORE THAN ANY OF HIS NOBLES AND MORE THAN ANY OF HIS SERVANTS'. PEPY II AND HIS MOTHER DYNASTY 6 c.2250 BC BROOKLYN MUSEUM FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD c. 2181-2055 BC STELA OF MAATY and DEDWI 7TH DYNASTY - EARLY 11TH DYNASTY BROOKLYN MUSEUM THE MAN WHO WAS TIRED OF LIFE MIDDLE KINGDOM PAPYRUS BERLIN 3024 PAPYRUS OF IPUWER (LEIDEN 344) RELATION TO EXODUS? IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY 2014 DOCUMENTARY: PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: EXODUS claimed the admonitions of Ipuwer was historical, an Egyptian view of the events given in the biblical Book of Exodus ALSO COMPANION BOOK DAVID ROHL, EXODUS: MYTH OR HISTORY? MENTUHOTEP II Dynasty 11 2055-2004 BC REUNIFICATION OF EGYPT MILITARY CAMPAIGNS NUBIA PALESTINE TEMPLE AT DEIR EL-BAHRI FOUNDER OF MIDDLE KINGDOM AMENEMHAT I FIRST KING OF DYNASTY 12 c 1970BC AMENEMHAT I, WHO IS THEORIZED TO BE “AMENY” IN “THE PROPHECIES OF NEFERTI” HOW TO MAINTAIN HIS KINGSHIP AND PROSPERITY HE WARNS HIS SON SENWOSRET) NOT TO TRUST ANYONE EXPLAINS THAT HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY HIS GUARD WHILE HE WAS IN BED. ANOTHER CONSPIRACY? LINTEL SESOSTRIS III JUBILEE FESTIVAL DEIR EL-BERSHA NECROPOLIS MIDDLE EGYPT 1915 HARVARD-BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS EXPEDITION GEORGE ANDREW REISNER October 2009 – June 2010 LADY DJEHUTYNAKHT DJEHUTYNAKHT PROCESSION TO THE TOMB PLOWING FUNERARY BOAT c. 2000 BC MUMMY HEAD OF DJEHUTYNAKHT COFFIN OF DJEHUTY-NAKHT EARLY 12TH DYNASTY C. 2000 BC COFFIN OF DJEHUTY-NAKHT EARLY 12TH DYNASTY C. 2000 BC .