The world has left the Stone Age well behind, having emersed itself in the Bronze Age long enough to realize that tools and weapons of iron were now on the cutting edge of technology. Enter the Iron Age. Anything seems possible. In Egypt, the 18th dynasty rules, and on the banks of the Nile, agriculture flourishes. Shipping and travel to distant lands becomes second nature.
Sculpture grows to colossal dimensions.
Watercolourists, too, have improvised a new, high-tech method. Royal painters and scribes preserve scenes of everyday life in the wall murals of their pharaohs' tombs, at least partially achieving their masters ultimate aim of immortality. From the beginning, dating back to 3000 BC, the Egyptians were ones to employ full, polychromatic painting. No more two-colour artwork with black outlines. Now living colour was the expected norm.