Historical and Geographical Context
Geographical setting, natural features, and resources of New Kingdom Egypt and its neighbours.
The Economy
Importance of the Nile: agriculture, animal husbandry, transport.
Economic exchange: barter and taxation.
Impact of empire: booty, tribute, and trade.
Occupations, crafts, and industry.
Technology: tools, building materials, techniques and construction.
Religion, Death, and Burial
Gods, goddesses, cults, and priesthoods including Amun-Re, Osiris.
Festivals: Opet, Beautiful Feast of the Valley, Heb-Sed Festival.
Myths and legends: Creation myth, Osiris myth.
Funerary customs, rituals, and texts: afterlife concepts, mummification.
Temples - architecture and function: Karnak, Luxor, Deir el-Bahri.
Tombs - architecture and decoration: Thebes.
Cultural and Everyday Life
Art: sculpture, jewellery, and wall paintings.
Writing and literature: love poetry, Papyrus Lansing, wisdom literature.
Leisure activities.
Health of New Kingdom Egyptians as revealed by human remains.
Sources
This section includes all the sources used throughout the site.
- Geographical Setting
- Roles and Images of the Pharaoh
- Roles of the Vizier and Members of the Religious, Administrative, and Military Elites
- Nature and Role of the Army
- Roles and Status of Women
- Scribes, Artisans, and Agricultural Workers
- Importance of the Nile
- Economic Exchange
- Impact of Empire
- Occupations, Crafts, and Industry
- Technology
- Gods, Goddesses, Cults, and Priesthoods
- Festivals
Social Structure and Political Organisation
Roles and images of the pharaoh, the concept of maat.
Roles of the vizier and members of the religious, administrative, and military elites.
Nature and role of the army.
Roles and status of women: royal and non-royal.
Scribes, artisans, and agricultural workers.