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The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gallery3100 – 2600 BC
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Rapid advances in the technology and social organisation of Egypt during the fifth millennium BC produced a material culture of increasing sophistication. Further innovations followed in about 3100 BC when the separate Predynastic peoples of upper and lower Egypt were united under a single ruler.
Ivory figure of a woman with incised features around 4000 BC More information
Ivory figure of a woman with incised features around 4000 BC
The Battlefield Palette around 3150 BC More information
The Battlefield Palette around 3150 BC
Ivory label for King Den's sandals around 2985 BC More information
Ivory label for King Den's sandals around 2985 BC
Limestone relief slab from the tomb of Rehotep around 2600 BC More information
Limestone relief slab from the tomb of Rehotep around 2600 BC
The resulting increase in wealth and strong central control led to dramatic achievements in architecture, writing and fine goods, culminating in the building of the Great Pyramids of Giza in around 2600 BC.
Objects on display in Room 64 illustrate the cultural, technological and political development of early civilisation in Egypt throughout this period.
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Bone figure of a woman
Egypt in the Old Kingdom
Italian-made Book of the Dead scarf, £30.00
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