Egyptian Art: Old, Middle and New Kingdoms Art historians, Egyptologists, and archeologists have made fascinating discoveries about the artifacts, pharaohs, and culture of Egypt since the discovery in 1799 of the Rosetta Stone. It led to the decoding of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Pharaonic names, dates, places, and events could then be reliably organized for linear presentation of ancient Egypt’s long 4,000 year history. Egyptian innovations in burial architecture, mummification, picture language, and huge monument building had both …showed first 75 words of 2280 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2280 total…and dedicated stone cutters, sculptors, and painters who left a visual record of their 4,000 year evolution on the wall of Pharaonic tombs, religious temples, and huge obelisks. These tough and rugged ancestors, competed, sweated, and toiled to produce colossal monuments to perpetuate their name and the names of their gods. Egyptian art endures as testimony to the remarkable passion for continuing the pleasures and beauty of the immortal in the timeless eternity of and after-life.