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...bottom of the garden, nearly 3,000 years before the birth of Christ, Egyptians of the "Old Kingdom" produced temples and sculptures that their successors could never surpass. As an example of the earliest and best in Egyptian art, Drioton picks a statue of King Khephren, the man who built the Great Sphinx. Except for the falcon of the royal ancestor-god Horus, which perches like a thought behind King Khephren's head, the portrait shows none of the symbolic attributes of royalty. "And yet," Drioton says, "such is the majesty emanating from this statue of an almost naked...
Near Smile. About 1000 B.C., court artists tried to set the clock back to old King Khephren's time. The new sculptures went back only part way. "They never indeed recaptured the old robust vigor and naturalness," Drioton says. They had "a softness, almost a smile, which links them with the archaic Greek sculpture whose contemporaries they were." A seated scribe looking for all the world like a modern businessman on a holiday at the beach was one of the period's best products...
...year with a thick layer of the Nile mud which the inundation spreads over the entire valley. The thick layer of sand which has covered the plateau for thousands of years with periodic intermissions when enterprising Egyptologists have laid bare the feet of the Sphinx, the Valley Temple of Khephren and the other monuments east of the pyramids. For many years there has persisted a belief that into the very bed rock of the plateau tombs were cut by the ancient rulers of the Nile who foresaw that the very awe which the massive dimensions of the pyramids inspired, would...
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