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A polytheist culture means what exactly? a culture that believes in many gods We have seen two different plant forms on Ancient Egyptian sculptures Name the plants they represent? Lotus >  "Upper Egypt"  in the  South  located upstream of the  Nile River Papyrus >  "Lower Egypt"  in the  North  (downstream of the Nile) West African palaces were planed and created with this design in mind:  i. Asymmetrically ii. concentric circles iii. grid “Hierarchical Scale suggests that relative size indicates relative importance within the culture.” Is this statement TRUE or FALSE Prehistoric cave painting has been found throughout Europe. What do these works date to? ______ _25,000 BCE (250,000 BCE homo sapiens) A marble carving can be described as: (Circle the correct answer.) i. subtractive carving ii. hollow lost wax carving iii. additive carving In the space at the right draw a post and lintel diagram. Label what the p

Ancient Egypt

Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun Ruled: 1332 - 1322 BCE Dynasty VIII p. 48 "This has been, perhaps, the most extraordinary day in the whole history of Egyptian excavation...The entrance today was made into the sealed chamber of (Tutankhamun's) tomb...and yet another door opened beyond that. No eyes have seen the King, but to practical certainty we know that  lies there close at hand in all his original state, undisturbed."               The Times of London ,  February 16,  1923 Tutankhamun's mask, or funerary mask of Tutankhamun, is the death mask of the 18th-dynasty Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun. It was discovered by Howard Carter in 1925 in tomb KV62 and is now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.   Found in the Valley of the Kings, after 15 years of digging! Carter's last expedition, sponsored by the wealthy British amateur Egyptologist Lord Carnarvon.  The tomb dates to c. 1332 - 1322 BCE The death mask is made of gold inlaid with glass an