Fresco Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Egypt and Ancient Near East === The first known Egyptian fresco was found in Tomb 100 at [[Hierakonpolis]], and dated to {{Circa|3500β3200 BC}}. Several of the themes and designs visible in the fresco are otherwise known from other [[Naqada II]] objects, such as the [[Gebel el-Arak Knife]]. It shows the scene of a "[[Master of Animals]]", a man fighting against two lions, individual fighting scenes, and Egyptian and foreign boats.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Case |first1=Humphrey |last2=Payne |first2=Joan Crowfoot |title=Tomb 100: The Decorated Tomb at Hierakonpolis |journal=The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology |date=1962 |volume=48 |page=17 |doi=10.2307/3855778 |jstor=3855778 |issn=0307-5133}}</ref><ref name="IS">{{cite book |last1=Shaw |first1=Ian|author-link=Ian Shaw (Egyptologist) |title=Ancient Egyptian Warfare: Tactics, Weaponry and Ideology of the Pharaohs |date=2019 |publisher=Open Road Media |isbn=978-1-5040-6059-2 |page=22 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0q_CDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT22 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kemp |first1=Barry J. |title=Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation |date=2007 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-56389-0 |page=94 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FpqBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bestock |first1=Laurel |title=Violence and Power in Ancient Egypt: Image and Ideology before the New Kingdom |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-85626-8 |page=94 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sFQ7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT94 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="MKH424">{{cite book |last1=Hartwig |first1=Melinda K. |title=A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art |date=2014 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-118-32509-4 |page=424 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gF24BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA424 |language=en}}</ref> Ancient Egyptians painted many tombs and houses, but those wall paintings are not frescoes.<ref>Nina M. Davies: ''Ancient Egyptian paintings, Vol. III'', Chicago, 1963, p. xxxi [https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/paintings3.pdf?gathStatIcon=true online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220510090552/https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/paintings3.pdf?gathStatIcon=true |date=10 May 2022 }}</ref> An old fresco from [[Mesopotamia]] is the ''[[Investiture of Zimri-Lim]]'' (modern [[Syria]]), dating from the early 18th century BC. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page