The Annotated Mona Lisa: Pages 8 - 11

Question 1

How long did Egyptian art remain unchanged?

Answer 1

• 3,000 years

Question 2

Colossal architecture and Egyptian art

Answer 2

• existed to surround the pharaoh’s spirit with eternal glory

Question 3

Egyptology

Answer 3

• a special branch of the archaeology
• reconstructs Egyptian civilization form the huge store-house of surviving antiquities
• began in 1799

Question 4

Where does most knowledge form ancient Egypt come from?

Answer 4

• tombs

Question 5

Prince Rahotep and Wife Nofret

Answer 5

• 2610 B.C.
• Egyptian Museum, Cairo
• These limestone sculptures are typical of the motionless, impassive poses of Egyptian portrait statues

Question 6

What were statues made from?

Answer 6

• granite and diorite

Question 7

Queen Nefertiti

Answer 7

• 1360 B.C.

- Egyptian Museum, Berlin

Question 8

The Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza

Answer 8

• 2,300,000 limestone blocks, each weighing an average of 2.5 tons
• copper-and-stone cutting tools
  0 barges to float blocks
• log rollers to hauls stone to construction site
• 480 feet tall
• 23 years to complete

Question 9

Mask of King Tutankhamen

Answer 9

• 1352 B.C.
• The Egyptian Museum, Cairo
• Even within the final coffin, the face of the mummy was concealed by a beaten gold mask