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    This document provides an overview of prehistoric, Mesopotamian, and Egyptian art. It discusses that prehistoric art from 30,000 years ago primarily depicted animals and simple geometric figures. During the Neolithic period, humans began farming and lived in permanent communities. Mesopotamian civilizations like the Sumerians developed one of the first writing systems called cuneiform and built zigurats. They were located in present-day Iraq, Syria, and Iran. Egyptian art centered around their gods and pharaohs, evidenced by their construction of massive pyramids to serve as pharaoh tombs. Egyptian artwork illustrated the lives of rulers and myths through paintings, hieroglyphic writing, and

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    This document provides an overview of prehistoric, Mesopotamian, and Egyptian art. It discusses that prehistoric art from 30,000 years ago primarily depicted animals and simple geometric figures. During the Neolithic period, humans began farming and lived in permanent communities. Mesopotamian civilizations like the Sumerians developed one of the first writing systems called cuneiform and built zigurats. They were located in present-day Iraq, Syria, and Iran. Egyptian art centered around their gods and pharaohs, evidenced by their construction of massive pyramids to serve as pharaoh tombs. Egyptian artwork illustrated the lives of rulers and myths through paintings, hieroglyphic writing, and

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    This document provides an overview of prehistoric, Mesopotamian, and Egyptian art. It discusses that prehistoric art from 30,000 years ago primarily depicted animals and simple geometric figures. During the Neolithic period, humans began farming and lived in permanent communities. Mesopotamian civilizations like the Sumerians developed one of the first writing systems called cuneiform and built zigurats. They were located in present-day Iraq, Syria, and Iran. Egyptian art centered around their gods and pharaohs, evidenced by their construction of massive pyramids to serve as pharaoh tombs. Egyptian artwork illustrated the lives of rulers and myths through paintings, hieroglyphic writing, and

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    PREHISTORIC,

    MESOPOTAMIAN
    , AND EGYPTIAN
    ART
    Prehistoric Time

    “Before history” or
    “before written history”
    Prehistoric Artworks

    30, 000 years ago Paleolithic Period


    Learning to use stone tools
    Most common drawings are ANIMALS
    Some are simple geometric figures
    New Stone Age
    -humans learned to toil the land
    -developed permanent communities
    -refined their stone tools
    Megaliths and Stonehenge rocks
    A mysterious artifact made during the Stone Age
    In the Philippines, one of the oldest known
    artifacts was discovered in Angono, Rizal

    127 stylized depictions of humans


    Early Civilizations

    Humans became less These civilizations are


    nomadic and started found in Mesopotamia
    settling in permanent (present-day Iraq, Kuwait, Syria,
    Turkey and Iran, Egypt, India, and
    communities China)
    Art of Ancient Mesopotamia
    The Sumerians were one of the most dominant
    of the groups found in this region
    First to develop a writing system called
    CUNEIFORM
    Cuneiforms
    Art of Ancient Mesopotamia
    The Sumerians also built megaliths called
    ZIGGURATS
    Art of Ancient Egypt
    -life centered on their gods
    -led by the pharaohs, believing
    that they are the gods themselves
    The great respect for the Egyptians with their gods
    is the
    PYRAMID

    PYRAMID
    Egyptian’s Architecture
    The pyramids were used as tombs for pharaohs

    Servants are buried alive


    PYRAMIDS OF
    GIZA
    Sarcophagus
    The mummified body of the pharaoh was placed in a
    coffin
    Egyptian Drawing and Paintings
     Illustrates the life of
    the pharaoh and
    tell stories about
    their gods and
    goddesses
     Egyptian artists had
    to draw the human
    body as a whole
     The head, arms, legs,
    and feet were drawn
    from the side while
    the eyes and the
    shoulders are facing
    front
    EGYPTIAN MURAL
    The system of writing
    in ancient Egyptians.
    It is a combination of
    logography, which is
    a writing system that
    uses characters that
    represent words or
    phrases and
    alphabetic, a writing
    system composed of a
    set of letters
    HIEROGLYPH
    EGYPTIAN SCULPTURES
    Used to safeguard the pharaoh’s body
    after death.
    Statues in the image of the pharaoh were
    sculpted and were placed near the
    sarcophagus
    In case the mummified body was stolen or
    destroyed, the soul of the pharaoh can
    reincarnate and use the stone statues of
    wall paintings as a substitute body.
    EGYPTIAN SCULPTURES

    THE GREAT SPHINX

    SPHINX – a mythical creature that has the head of


    a MAN and a body of a LION
    THE GREAT SPHINX is considered to be
    the world’s largest monolithic statue.
    The face of the Sphinx represents the
    Pharaoh Khafra

    73.5 m long, 19.3 m wide, and 20.22 m high


     Discuss the Prehistoric time and
    GROUP 1 Prehistoric art through a role play
    presentation

     Discuss the Mesopotamian art through


    GROUP 2 a role play presentation

     Discuss the Egyptian art through a role


    GROUP 3 play presentation

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