Ancient Egyptian art is drawing, sculpture, architecture, and other arts produced by ancient Egypt civilization in the Nile Valley from about 3000 BC to 30 AD. Ancient Egyptian art reached a high level in drawing and sculpture and they were both very embellished and symbolic. Egyptian styles have changed significantly over more than three thousand years. Much of the art that survived from these eras comes from tombs and monuments and now there is an emphasis on studying the beliefs of life after death for the ancient Egyptians and preserving knowledge from the past.
Ancient Egyptian art included wood carvings and sculptures that rarely survived, stone and ceramics, drawings on papyrus, porcelain, jewelry, ivory and other artistic means and displayed an unusually clear representation of ancient Egyptian socio-economic systems.
The history of the identification of the Egyptian civilization began since the campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte to Egypt through the efforts of the scientists who accompanied this campaign, led by the scientist Champollion (1790-1832) who discovered the Rosetta Stone in 1822, and from it he was able to decipher the hieroglyphic writing, to show a new science named after it Egyptian archeology, and the second most prominent discovery was the tomb of Tutankhamun at the hands of the worlds Carter and Carnarvon in 1923, and the relics that were found in the area (Naqada) also provided evidence of the progress of Egyptian civilization in that era, and the high level reached by art since the emergence The first family that Mina founded in Memphis, and Among these relics are alabaster vessels and ivory boards, such as the “Palermo Stone” on which the rituals of the royal sitting parties were recorded.
In 525 BC, the Persians took over the political state in Egypt for nearly a century and a half in the late Egyptian era. By 404 BC the Persians were expelled from Egypt in a short period of independence. After this period of about 60 years of Egyptian rule, it consisted of an abundance of revolutions, seditions, and short epochs. Once again the Egyptians were infected with the Persians when they invaded Egypt again until 332 BC with the arrival of Alexander the Great. Sources say that when Alexander the Great entered the capital, he established a new capital that Alexandria had applied to since he expelled the Persians, whom he disliked. The late period is marked by the death of Alexander the Great and the beginning of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Although this period represented a political turmoil and a tremendous change for Egypt, its art and culture continued to flourish.
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