Editing Fresco (section)

=== Egypt and ancient Near East ===
The first known Egyptian fresco was found in Tomb 100 at [[Hierakonpolis]], and dated to {{Circa|3500–3200 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.