Beauty of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Art from the Pharaohs to Cleopatra

Fiona Finnigan
With some 5,000 years of history, Egypt, both ancient and modern, has a vast and rich artistic history. We will be looking at the arts of Egypt starting with the prehistoric time of the first pyramids, built when woolly mammoths still roamed the far reaches of the Earth, to the Ptolemaic period of Cleopatra, when Egypt was finally conquered first by Greeks and then by the mighty Roman Empire