Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt: An Overview
Following the Neolithic – and the Bronze and Stone Age prehistoric material that I would have appended to it – I turned to Egypt. I deviated from the standard placement of the Ancient Near East at the beginning of the trajectory of the Western artistic tradition because of a strict adherence to chronology – quite simply, the bulk of the Sumerian material dates later than the earliest Egyptian material.

June 21st, 2008 at 10.35
Thanks for the information