This page is very crowded with maps and images, so we will stick up a separate page for discussion and questions for the exam. You get to it here: exam questions
A very good site for maps, some of which are interactive: [link]
You are responsible for the following sites. 10 of these will be given to you with a blank map for the exam. Byblos is up the coast, in Lebanon, hence not on the map itself. Things were getting crowded in the area around Memphis so I pulled most of the pyramid sites off the main map and am also giving you a map of that area in specific. There are more sites on these maps than you need to nail for the exam, so make sure you pay attention to the list!
Buto
Maadi
Heliopolis
Naqada
Hierakonpolis
Abydos
Byblos (in modern Lebanon)
Buhen
Wadi Maghara
Helwan
Badari
Asiut
Memphis
Saqqara
Giza
Abusir
Herakleopolis
Thebes
Coptos
Aswan/Elephantine
Meidum
Dahshur
Moalla
Deir el Bersha
Map of Egypt
Map of the pyramid fields nearest Memphis
Study Images
There are some subjects we really didn't deal with pictorially either because they developed into interesting conversations or because we have so little evidence that I was unable to illustrate them. So these are here for your convenience, to help remind you of some of the major themes we've covered and to help remind you what some things look like. But DO NOT take these as representative of everything you need to know - in particular the written evidence is underrepresented, so things like administration in the Old Kingdom, royal decrees, etc.
Naqada I pottery
Naqada II pottery and figurine from graves
painting (with details) from the wall of Hierakonpolis Tomb 100
Subterranean house at Maadi and large stone rectangular building, also Maadi
Tomb U-j at Abydos
Ivory tags from U-j and the development of writing
"Towns" or "Libyan" palette from the Naqada III period (terminal Predynastic)
development of the serekh (chronological from bottom to top)
one side of the Narmer palette, from Hierakonpolis
Pyramids at Giza
Map (note that north is down) showing sight lines from Heliopolis to pyramid fields
Sun temple of Niuserre at Abusir (a part of the site sometimes called Abu Ghurob but this is nitpicky and you may call it Abusir)
mastaba "city of the dead" adjacent to Khufu's pyramid at Giza
plans of mastabas from the satellite cemeteries around Khufu's pyramid
photo and plan of tomb of Ptahshepses, Dynasty V, at Abusir (with that errant false door of a different Ptahshepses, also a Vth Dynasty official but buried at Saqqara)
a map I've shown a lot recently that may be comfortingly familiar
Intef II and his dogs from his saff tomb at Thebes (the part of the site called el-Tarif)
private stela from 11th Dynasty Thebes (pre-reunification)
Deir el-Bahri (south of el-Tarif, on the west bank of Thebes) showing the mortuary complex of Nebhepetre Montuhotep (and the later adjacent monument of Hatshepsut that we'll get to in a couple of weeks but for which you are not responsible now)
