CONTENTS
  

Western Civilization PicturePack

Collection A:
Early Middle Eastern
Civilizations to 500 B.C. 
  
All the PicturePacks listed below are
included in this PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.
   

PicturePack WCA01: Early Human Development ● A map of Europe and the ancient Near East ● A map of early human archaeological sites ● Three reconstructed human skulls ● Three reconstructed human busts ● A prehistoric settlement in France ● Bison painting from caves at Altamira, Spain ● A bison painting from the Altamira caves ● An Egyptian prehistoric wall painting ● Stonehenge ● The Avebury Circle in England ● The standing stones of Callanish, Scotland ● A Minajora megalithic temple, Malta, ca. 3000 B.C ● A drawing of a Stone Age axe 
 

PicturePack WCA02: Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations ● A map of Near Eastern civilizations ● A map of Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East ● Gilgamesh and Enkidu ● A Sumerian cuneiform tablet from Ur III ● A statuette of a Hittite warrior ● Map, early Middle Eastern and African empires ● An Assyrian king, probably Ashurnasirpal II ● A marble relief of Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria ● Tiglath-Pilesar III in his processional chariot ● Reconstruction, Sargon II's palace at Khorsabad ● A human-headed winged bull from Khorsabad ● Assyrian hunters with a gazelle ● An Assyrian votive statue ● The Assyrian kings Sargon II and Sennacherib ● Sennacherib II lays siege to Lachish ● Assyrian siege warfare ● Captured slaves work in an Assyrian quarry ● An Assyrian king flanked by two winged deities ● Ashurbanipal, the Assyrian king, on horseback ● Ashurbanipal kills a wounded lion with his sword ● Detail of a dying lion, pierced by many arrows ● Ashurbanipal pursues two lions in his chariot ● Cooking scenes in Ashurbanipal's military camp ● Assyrian beaters return home from the lion hunt ● Hammurabi receives laws from Shamash ● The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, a drawing ● Ruins of Nebuchadnezzar's palace in Babylon ● A brick-relief of a gazelle from a Babylon wall ● Reconstruction of a Chaldean Ziggurat ● The ancient city of Ctesiphon ● The Persian empire of Darius I ● Bodyguard of an ancient Persian king, ca. 400 B.C.  
 

PicturePack WCA03: Ancient Egypt: The Old Kingdom & Daily Life ● A topographical map of Egypt and nearby areas ● Map: The ancient Egyptian civilization ● The step pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, Egypt ● Two sides of the step pyramid of Djoser ● The mastaba of Governor Ti at Saqqara, Egypt ● A painted relief of Governor Ti ● Governor Ti's staff of office ● Female dancers entertain Governor Ti ● Preparation of food for a nobleman's table ● Three female servants carry food in baskets ● Male servants bring food to a nobleman's meal ● Slavery in ancient Egypt ● The pyramids at Giza, Egypt ● Pyramid of Chephren and Great Sphinx, Giza ● The Great Sphinx at Giza, Egypt ● The face of the sphinx at Giza ● The Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza, Egypt ● Closeup of the stone blocks of Cheops' Pyramid ● The pyramid of Chephren at Giza, Egypt ● An ancient Egyptian ship ● Oarsmen on an Egyptian ship ● Ti and two helmsmen on one of his ships ● Three Egyptian feluccas sailing the Nile River ● Egyptian nobleman hunts hippopotamuses ● Fishing in the Nile ● The Red and the Black Land ● An Egyptian man plowing and a woman sowing seed ● A confined heifer nursing a calf ● Traditional irrigation on an Egyptian farm ● Agriculture in the Nile River Delta ● An irrigation pump on an Egyptian farm near Luxor ● A brick factory near Thebes, Egypt ● A pile of sun-dried bricks near Thebes, Egypt ● Reconstruction of villa of Old Kingdom noble ● The wall of a village near Thebes, Egypt ● A traditional Egyptian artist carving alabaster ● Ancient Egyptian medical instruments ● Scribes and messengers of an Egyptian noble ● The face of an Egyptian scribe in Cairo Museum ● Papyrus plants growing in the Nile Delta ● The Rosetta Stone, key to the hieroglyphic texts ● Hieroglyphs: the sun-disk and a bird ● The sun-disk "Re" and the Scarab   
 

PicturePack WCA04: Egypt: Middle & New Kingdoms & Great Temples ● Thutmose III and his wife ● The funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut ● Hatshepsut's trading expedition to Punt ● The Egyptian envoy and his entourage at Punt ● A village in Punt ● The Egyptian goddess Hathor ● The god Amun-Re sits before a table of offerings ● Amenhotep III at the Colossi of Memnon, Thebes. ● Graffiti on one of the Colossi of Memnon ● Detail showing the face of Rameses II ● Detail showing the cartouche of Rameses II ● Overview of the Temple of Khons at Karnak, Egypt ● The Great Court of the Temple of Amun at Karnak ● Panoramic view of the Temple of Amun at Karnak ● Avenue of Rams leading to Temple of Amun ● Closeup of the head of a ram. ● Pylon I of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak ● Entry to the Great Hypostyle Hall ● An aisle in the Great Hypostyle Hall ● An upper elevation in the Great Hypostyle Hall ● Hieroglyphs painted in the Great Hypostyle Hall ● The obelisk erected by Queen Hatshepsut ● Osiris with "ankh" symbols ● Statue of Amun in Hall of Thutmose III ● The head of Amun in the Hall of Thutmose III ● A carved granite column in Hall of Thutmose III ● The Great Festal Temple of Thutmose III ● Overview of the Temple of Amun at Luxor ● Columns from the temple of Amun at Luxor ● The avenue of sphinxes at the Temple of Luxor ● A sphinx along the avenue at Luxor ● The sacred boat of Amun ● Statues between the columns at Luxor ● Rameses II, from the temple at Luxor ● The Court of Amenhotep III in the temple at Luxor ● The Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt ● The Temple of Hathor at Abu Simbel ● The Temple of Hathor at Abu Simbel    
 

PicturePack WCA05: Burial Practices in Ancient Egypt ● Thebes seen from the Nile ● A pathway in the Valley of the Queens ● A wall-painting in the Valley of the Queens ● The Valley of the Kings near Thebes ● Canopic jars from an Egyptian tomb ● Scarabs from an Egyptian mummy ● An Egyptian mummy with amulets in the wrapping ● An Egyptian mummy from ca. 1000 B.C ● The head of a mummy ● Hieroglyphics on a mummy cartonnage section ● The inside of an Egyptian mummy case ● The upper half of an Egyptian mummy case ● Exterior view of an Egyptian mummy case ● A statuette of a cat ● Model boat with oarsmen from Egyptian tomb ● Entrances to tombs of Rameses VI and Tutankhamen ● Carvings on the back of King Tutankhamen's chair ● The sacred boat of Osiris ● A wall painting of the Book of the Dead ● Prayer to Osiris from the Book of the Dead ● Hieroglyphics in the Book of the Dead ● An Egyptian king journeys to the afterlife ● Detail of a sacred boat from a tomb ceiling ● An antechamber in the tomb of Rameses I ● A painting representing the night sky ● The sarcophagus room of Rameses I   
  

PicturePack WCA06: Ancient Egypt in Decline; Wars to Control Palestine ● Relief about military campaigns of Sheshonk I ● Cartouches representing captured Hebrew cities ● Goddess of the Theban Nome with captured cities ● Hebrews captured by Sheshonk I ● Statue of King Taharqo in the Great Court ● A closeup of King Taharqo's wife ● The Pharos (lighthouse) of Alexandria, 280 B.C ● Courtyard of the Temple of Horus at Edfu, Egypt ● King Ptolemy XII striking down his foes ● Horus conversing with King Ptolemy XII ● An exterior wall of the Temple of Horus at Edfu ● The Temple of Kom Ombo, Egypt   
   

PicturePack WCA07: Hebraic History ● Mount Ararat, the landing place of Noah’s Ark ● The Machpelah Mosque in Hebron, Israel ● One of the cenotaphs in the Machpelah Mosque ● Ancient Canaanite artifacts found at Hazor ● A seated Canaanite man, carved from basalt ● Ruins of King Solomon's buildings at Hazor ● The open cistern pit at Hazor, Israel ● The Springs of Moses in the Sinai desert ● Site of Hebrew camp near Mount Sinai ● Mt. Sinai, where Moses received Ten Commandments ● St. Catherine’s Monastery ● The "burning bush," at the foot of Mt. Sinai ● Moses holding the Tablet of the Commandments ● The Ark of the Covenant, a relief in Capernaum ● Aaron, the first Jewish High Priest ● Map: 10c B.C. kingdoms of Israel and Judah ● Kidron Valley and the Old City of Jerusalem ● The House of Ahiel, a typical Jerusalem residence ● Gihon Spring, water supply of ancient Jerusalem ● Hezekiah's tunnel to the Gihon Spring ● The south side of Temple Mount in Jerusalem ● A reconstruction of Solomon's temple, Jerusalem ● The valley of Armageddon from Megiddo ● The Tomb of King David on Mt. Zion in Jerusalem ● The "Tomb of Absalom" in the Valley of Jehosaphat