Since the ancient Egyptians had no word that we can translate as "art," this hour-long webinar provides multiple ways of answering that question. An aesthetically pleasing object can be given meaning through its original function, material, and symbolism. From hieroglyphic texts, we learn how statues could be receptacles for the soul, wall paintings in a palace might evoke the sun god's glory, and a simple amulet wards off a blood-thirsty goddess. At the end of one hour, you will have met some of the most famous (and some not-so-famous) works of pharaonic art and understood what it meant to the ancient people who made it.