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    The document discusses the origins and types of ancient megalithic structures from the Stone Age, including menhirs, dolmens, and stone circles like Stonehenge. It also provides an overview of ancient Egyptian art forms like relief sculptures, and architectural structures like mastabas and the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak Temple.

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    served as a grave or as an altar.

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    Quarter 1
    Arts: ANCIENT ART
    PREHISTORIC BEGINNINGS
    AND EGYPTIAN ART
    Stone Age- an enormous span of time that began
    about 2.5 or 3.4 million of years ago. Early human
    began to carve their tools of bones and stones, and
    paint images the cave. 3. Cromlech – a circle of standing stones. The
    Nomadic- people during this time. They lived by Brythonic-rooted word crom means “bent” or
    hunting animals as their source of food, clothes, and “curved”, while Llech means “slab” or “flat stones”.
    materials

    CIRCLES OF STONES: PREHISTORIC


    ARCHITECTURES
    Stone Age- people developed a form of architecture
    based on big rocks (megaliths). Mega came from
    the Greek word as “big” and lithos as “rocks”.

    Types of Megalith
    1. Menhir – a stone usually standing vertically in
    the middle of a field. Commonly arranged in rows.
    Stonehenge- an essemblage of giant stones in
    Southern England. It came from henge, the Anglo-
    Saxon word for “hanging”, which refers to the
    horizontal stones in the monument.
    - Circular ditch of 20 ft. wide up to 7 ft. deep ended
    as a great stone circle on the plains of Southern
    England.

    2. Domlen – a structure in the form of a table. It


    consists of two standing stones that support a
    horizontal giant stone. It is believed that this is
    EGYPTIAN ART ANGONO PETROGLYPHS
     Relief sculptures were very common on the  In the Philippines, this is the oldest known
    walls of ancient Egypt. work of art. It is located in Rizal. There are
     Egyptian artists carved low-relief and bas- 127 human and animal figured and engraved
    relief sculptures in which the figures and on the cave’s wall, which were possible
    objects stand out slightly from the carved during the late Neolithic.
    background.
     Offerings on the Mastaba or Tomb of ti
    Mastaba, made of mud brick and stone, is a
    massive structure of ancient Egyptian tombs.

    ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
    ARCHITECTURE
     The Architectural monuments, sculptures,
    paintings, and decorative arts of ancient
    Egypt tell about the society’s political and
    social system.
     They tell of the names and triumphs of
    ancient Egyptian queens and kings, or
    Different inscriptions show styled human figures,
    Pharos.
    frogs, lizards, and other designs that may depict
     Hieroglyphics – a system of writing
    other interesting figures.
    composed entirely of pictures.

    PILLARD OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN


    ART
     The Great Hypostyle Hall in the Karnak
    Temple in the Precinct of Amun-Ra is a
    marvel of the ancient world.
     Sculptures carved in low relief depict the
    story of how 2 Egyptian rulers led their
    armies to victory in Palestine and Syria

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