Great Pyramids, Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty. From left: pyramids of Menkaure, ca. 2490-2472 BCE; Khafre, ca. 2520-2494 BCE; and Khufu, ca. 2551-2528 BCE.
Great Sphinx, Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2520-2494 BCE. Sandstone, 65′ X 240′.
Khafre enthroned, from Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2520-2494 BCE. Diorite, 5′ 6″ high. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Menkaure and Khamerernebty(?), from Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2490-2472 BCE. Graywacke, 4′ 6 1/2″ high. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Seated scribe, from Saqqara, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2500 BCE. Painted limestone, 1′ 9″ high. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Portrait statue of Ka-Aper, from his mastaba at Saqqara, Egypt, Fifth Dynasty, ca. 2450-2350 BCE. Wood with rock crystal eyes, 3′ 7 1/4″ high. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt, relief in the mastaba of Ti, Saqqara, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, ca. 2450-2350 BCE. Painted limestone, 4′ high.
Ancient to Medieval Art 