The Nile: Scenes Remade
A ten‑minute visual tour of the ancient Egyptian artworks that depict the Nile, showing how the river was portrayed from the Early Dynastic period to late antiquity.
Chapters
- 0:07 Opening: The Nile in Egyptian Art
- 1:34 Royal Power and the River
- 3:19 Life, Death, and the Afterlife on the Nile
- 4:46 Later Traditions and Continuities
On-screen text
- 0:07 Opening: The Nile in Egyptian Art
- 0:14 Opening: The Nile in Egyptian Art
- 0:31 Nebamun's fishing scene, 14th c. BCE Historical record · Tomb of Nebamun, wall painting, British Museum (EA 10393)
- 0:49 Menna's boat procession, 14th c. BCE Historical record · Tomb of Menna, wall painting, Thebes (TT 69)
- 1:07 Narmer's boat crossing, 31st c. BCE Historical record · Narmer Palette, Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- 1:25 Nile in Dendera Zodiac, 1st c. BCE Historical record · Dendera Zodiac, Temple of Hathor, Dendera
- 1:34 Royal Power and the River
- 1:41 Royal Power and the River
- 1:58 Royal barge with falcon deity, 19th c. BCE Historical record · Tomb of Khnumhotep II, Beni Hasan (BH 15)
- 2:16 Tribute ships at Hatshepsut's temple, 15th c. BCE Historical record · Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el‑Bahri, relief
- 2:34 Akhenaten's Nile barge, 14th c. BCE Historical record · Amarna Royal Family relief, House of the King, Amarna
- 2:52 Ramesses II's war fleet, 13th c. BCE Historical record · Ramesseum relief, Thebes
- 3:10 Ptolemaic barge, 3rd c. BCE Historical record · Temple of Edfu relief, Ptolemaic period
- 3:19 Life, Death, and the Afterlife on the Nile
- 3:26 Life, Death, and the Afterlife on the Nile
- 3:43 Ani's solar barge on the Nile, 13th c. BCE Historical record · Papyrus of Ani, Leiden Museum (Papyrus of Ani, Leiden)
- 4:01 Sennedjem's funeral barge, 14th c. BCE Historical record · Tomb of Sennedjem, TT 1, wall painting
- 4:19 King's Nile voyage in afterlife, 24th c. BCE The Institute's interpretation · Pyramid Texts, Utterance 534, Saqqara (Pyramid of Unas)
- 4:37 Fayum portrait with Nile motif, 2nd c. CE Historical record · Fayum mummy portrait, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- 4:46 Later Traditions and Continuities
- 5:01 Stone blocks floated downstream Historical record · Herodotus, Histories 2.144
- 5:31 Monks cross the Nile Historical record · Coptic manuscript, Codex Schøyen, Berlin
Sources
Historical record: Tomb of Nebamun, wall painting, British Museum (EA 10393) · Tomb of Menna, wall painting, Thebes (TT 69) · Narmer Palette, Egyptian Museum, Cairo · Dendera Zodiac, Temple of Hathor, Dendera · Tomb of Khnumhotep II, Beni Hasan (BH 15) · Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el‑Bahri, relief · Amarna Royal Family relief, House of the King, Amarna · Ramesseum relief, Thebes · Temple of Edfu relief, Ptolemaic period · Papyrus of Ani, Leiden Museum (Papyrus of Ani, Leiden) · Tomb of Sennedjem, TT 1, wall painting · Fayum mummy portrait, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · Herodotus, Histories 2.144 · Coptic manuscript, Codex Schøyen, Berlin
The Institute's interpretation: Pyramid Texts, Utterance 534, Saqqara (Pyramid of Unas)
Sound: synthesized ambient (wind, drone, water) (CC0 — made by SoapBox). Made in 100 s of CPU.