Egypt 500 Years before the Great Pyramid
(around 3000 BC)

"Not long after 3000 B.C. the shadowy outline of predynastic Egypt begins to assume a sharper definition. Then, for the first time, we are confronted by written records of the First and Second Dynasties and can trace in hieroglyphic form the names Narmer ..."
(M.E.L. Mallowan, in: Emery 1961: 17)

illustrated by objects in the Petrie Museum, University College London, principally from Tarkhan

Tarkhan			General information			Aspects of art
Clothing and personal adornment in Tarkhan		Kings		Other archaeolo-gical Sites		Metal
Examples of Stone Vessels						Pottery
On architecture	Examples of Furniture	Aspects of Food production		Aspects of Social history	Examples of tools and Weapons	Foreign Relations
Maps	Burial customs	The beginning of writing		A game board	sealing	Faience

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