Art & Archeology of Egypt

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This course will explore through archaeology and the monuments the development of Ancient Egypt from the first settlement along the Nile to the Roman Conquest. Foci will include the origins of the centralized state, art and society in the Age of the Pyramids, the changing world of Middle Kingdom Egypt, the creation of an Egyptian Empire, and the collapse and conquest of Pharaonic Egypt. The evidence from archaeology will be integrated with the rich surviving literary evidence and efforts made to relate Egypt to the develop of other pre-industrial civilizations.