egyptain art
The time span of Ancient Egypt Stretches over thousands of years. It lasted many periods and included many dynasty's. From the Neolithic Period, ca 5450-3850 B.C. to it's downfall at the Roman Period, ca 30 B.C. - A.D. 395. That is a long time. For archeologists to understand every day life of the ancient Egyptians, they must rely on many sources. The some of these valuable things being tomb paintings, relics, and objects that were used in every day life, that had been placed in there tombs. The most important findings however were the hundreds of documents written by the Egyptians. These helped shed much needed light on their lives. Giving valued information on their culture, and the way that they used language and communicated with one another. During the ancient Egyptians more than 3,00 yearlong history, they used three kinds of writings to write religious and secular texts. The basis of the two other writings is hieroglyphic. This writing was mainly used for sacred (Greek hieros) inscriptions on temple walls or public monuments (Greek glypho). Thus the word hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics use clearly distinguishable pictures to
------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. This is the mother of the Egyptian language. But the basis of language and religions is all stemmed from the Mesopotamian. Their language consisted of 600 words and syllable signs. When they arrived in Egypt, this writing was almost exclusively used by Egyptian priest (Greek hieratikos, 'Priestly'). The quality of the writing would vary from highly detailed signs to just mere outlines of them. It is more cursive and is the result of a quick hand, usually drawing signs on a sheet of papryus with a brush made of reed. The paintings in these tombs told stories of who and how the deceased was in life, so that he could proceed to the afterlife with the same attributes he had while living. Overlapping of outlines was avoided at all costs. The clay tablets were baked left behind because they were of no value. The style of art in Egypt didn't change much for three thousand years. The bodies were represented as flat as possible. Like hieratic, Demotic was a handwriting, but the strokes wereeven whacker and more illegible.
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