Discuss the change from the Old Kingdom tombs to the New Kingdom tombs

What will be an ideal response?


Essay responses should include these points:
Pyramids were large houses for the dead and their spirits.
Menkaure's pyramid originally stood higher than 480 feet.
The pyramid complex includes the colossal sphinx.
The Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut is an elaborate example.
Her temple was constructed on three levels connected by ramps and fronted by colonnades that gave the temple more of the emphasis, rather than the tomb.
Rare myrrh trees decorated the temple's terraces, and a causeway lined with sphinxes connected the complex to a valley temple on the Nile.

Art & Culture

You might also like to view...

The setting of an opera or play is somewhat like a room with one wall removed so that

the audience can observe what is taking place.

a. true b. false

Art & Culture

Futurist performance

A. seamlessly incorporated video projections with the actors' live bodies on stage. B. was a type of documentary theatre. C. emphasized the illogical and rejected a narrative based on cause and effect. D. promoted theatre of realism and psychology.

Art & Culture

All of the following were common forms in the Classical period except

A. toccata-allegro form. B. sonata-allegro form. C. rondo form. D. minuet and trio.

Art & Culture

________ is the city considered to be the birthplace of grunge rock.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Art & Culture