art

• burial mounds

  built over the remains of the dead
• Apollo Cave


  first moveable painting
• relief


  a carving around something to bring out a form
• venus


  love/beauty/sex
• Swimming Reindeer


  prehistoric sculpture carved from the tip of a mammoth tusk
• Stonehenge


  burial site for people of high class
• Jericho


  first cities built large stone wall around settlement
• Lascaux caves


  has painted animals and symbols
• Venus of Willendorf


  represents a fertility figure (nude female) a good luck charm (fertility) also resembled the capability of reproduction.
• Lion Man


  associated with men and hunting ( ivory piece )
• Rosetta Stone


  A stone slab inscribed with different languages
• Ramesses II


  A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt
• book of dead


  collection of spells and illustrations
• Howard carter


  first in centuries to enter Egyptian tomb
• Khafe


  ancient Egyptian pharaoh
• osiris


  god of fertility, afterlife and resurrection
• Mummification


  the preservation of dead bodies by embalming and wrapping them in cloth
• Sed Festival


  a ceremony that celebrated the continuation of the pharaoh ( every 30 years )
• Pre-historic


  before written history
• pictogragh


  an image or a symbol created to express an idea or a piece of information
• Duat


  heart weighing ceremony took place
• Fresco


  technique of mural painting
• Commodus


  Ancient Roman Emperor who succeeded his father
• Pax Romana/Five Good Emperors


  Nerva / Traian / Hadrian / Antonius plus/ Marcus Aurelius
• SENATUS·POPVLVS·QVE·ROMANVS(SPQR)


  the Senate and the Roman people.
• Lucius Tarquinius Superbus

  Last king of Rome
• Mars


  god of war
• Romulus and Remus


  The traditional story of how Rome began. Twins abandoned and rescued by a she-wolf, raised by a shepherd . Grew to build Rome.