IT'S ALL ABOUT THE GREAT ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART

I find the Ancient Egyptian Art really fascinating.

I was really shocked when I found out that Egyptians invented the 365-days year calendar. The Nile river was situated in the northern Africa. It provided food, soil, water and transportation for the Egyptians. Floods would come each year and would provide fertile soil for growing food. I cannot imagine how the Pharaohs of Egypt were often buried in giant pyramids or in secret tombs. Examples of sculptures which Ancient Egyptians have created include the Great sphinx of Giza and the statues of Ramses II at the Abu simbel temple. They used various materials including Ivory, limestone, basalt, wood gilded with gold and sometimes even with solid gold.

Artworks were mostly done in Relief. A relief is a sculpture that is part of a wall or structure. They mostly used the colors blue, black, red, green and gold in their paintings. Small carved models were sometimes included inside tombs. These included slaves, animals, boats and buildings that the person may need in the afterlife.

The Ancient Egyptians used picture words to write called hieroglyphics. They could be at the bottom. They didn't use any punctuation. Remember that the people who trained to write are called scribes. They sometimes used a faster short form of hieroglyphics on papyrus called hieratic.

The Ancient Egyptians wrote on a type of paper called papyrus. In 1799, a french soldier found a special stone in the city of Rosetta. This stone has the same message written in both hieroglyphics and Greek. This stone was important because it helped to translate what the hieroglyphics said and could be used to help translate other hieroglyphics as well. A very famous scribe was (Imhotep). He became high priest of the sun god, designed the first pyramids and was later turned into a god.

Egyptian women had a wide range of rights and freedoms. Egyptian pharaohs were overweight.

Ancient Egyptians loved board games and they also used Pythagorean theorem, trigonometry and simple Algebra. The softer stones like limestone were used to create relief sculptures.

They worshiped an electic mix of local gods, demi gods and supernatural beings, the spirits and ancestors who never developed formal cults but who had enormous influence on the lives of the ordinary people.