Major Resources Books Westerdorf, Wolfhart. Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from Ancient Egypt. New York: Abrams, 1968 Quality art history text and visuals. Excellent source for color photographs of Egyptian Art to share with students. Schuman. Art from Many Hands. Prentice-Hall, 1981. Multicultural art projects for home and school. YouŽll find useful information on hieroglyphs in the section Arts of the Middle east. Schuman. Art from Many Hands. Prentice-Hall, 1981. Multicultural art projects for home and school. YouŽll find useful information on hieroglyphs in the section Arts of the Middle east. Slides Available from: Universal Color Slide Company 8450 South Tamiami Trail Sarasota, FL 34238-2936 Telephone: 1 800 326 1367 Used in this lesson were: Slide 5031 Sarcophagus of Artemidorus Slide 501S Cover of the Coffin of Tutankhamen Web Sites DIA Visual Resources Department athttp://www.diamondial.org 1st Steps Reading Hieroglyphs at http://www.fnspo.cz/mmm/egypt/hiero/1.htm Information on hieroglyphs best suited for adult/teacher. Also at this site you may find useful visuals. Write Your Name in Hieroglyphs at http://www2.torstar.com/rom/egypt/ Fun and informative for both adult and children. Quizmaster Your Name in Hieroglyphs at http://www.quizmaster.com/hiero.htm Online hieroglyph translator. You can enter a name, word or phrase to be translated. A Short History of Hieroglyphs athttp://khety.iut.univ-paris8.fr/~rosmord/intro/intro.html Useful information on various aspects of hieroglyphs best suited for an adult or teacher. This was one of several lessons from a unit of study on art of the Middle East. Prior to this lesson we viewed art and discussed the structure of society, daily life and religious beliefs in ancient Egypt. Students were asked: How do we know so much about life in ancient Egypt? What are the similarities and differences in the structure of ancient Egyptian society and our own? What purpose did most Egyptian art serve? For this specific lesson we viewed and discussed various examples of hieroglyphs, using charts, hand-outs [Click for hieroglyph chart] and posters of hieroglyphs and slides and posters of ancient Egyptian art listed above. Students were asked: How do people communicate in various ways (from earliest cave art to modern day technology) ? Are hieroglyphs a form of writing or a form of art? The teacher presented these points: some pictures/symbols represent an idea (ideogram) (see right) some pictures/symbols represent sounds (phonogram) (see right) hieroglyphs were usually drawn or carved in between lines or columns, usually vertical but sometimes horizontal often carved hieroglyphs were painted though much of the original colors are gone

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