Afterlife In Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a captivating and intricate civilization. Over the years, historians have found it easier to study this civilization, rather than other historical civilizations, because the Egyptians went through great lengths to record their history. Besides being decent record keepers, they were very religious, and “ahead of their time,” due to their technological and economic breakthroughs. Because of the aspects of this culture, it has to be one of the greatest civilizations of the world.

The Great Pyramid at Giza is the best known and largest of the pyramids constructed between the Third Dynasty and the Thirteenth Dynasty (2686-1650 B.C.) of Egypt 's paranoiac age. The Great Pyramid of the pharaoh Khufu —or, as the Greeks referred to him, Cheops —was constructed during the Fourth Dynasty, about 2,550 years before the birth of Christ. Khufu reigned from 2551 to 2528 B.C.

The Harvester’s Vase is one of the “finest” examples of Minoan pottery along with other notable Minoan works such as the Chieftains Cup and The Boxer Vase Rediscovered in the ruins of the Hagia Triada, an Minoan settlement in 1902 The Harvester’s Vase, is beaufiful and rare artficact of Minoan culture, the artist is unknown but it is belived to have been created around 1500 BCE the height of Minoan civilzation. But this isn’t any old vase, in fact it is not vase at all, according the art historian John Forskyse, it is a stone scupluture made up of steatite or soapstone, (a metamorphic rock made up talc and magnisium) a very common stone for carving during this time.

There are many people who believe in the afterlife and there are others who don’t, but for the Egyptians the afterlife was very important. It was something that they prepared for all throughout their lives, as the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology mentioned, “for the Egyptians death was one of the most powerful generators of the Egyptian culture” (Harold 2). This means that in the Egyptian culture one of the things that kept the culture alive and going was death. For them death did not mean that they would stop living but rather it was just another step to a new and better life. There are many things that prove just how important the afterlife was for the Egyptians, one of them is the painting of the Funeral Procession, Tomb of Pairy.

Starting in 4500 BCE, the Badarian and Amratian periods, the Egyptian people began using clay to create amphoras and pithos. At this point in time pottery was very rudimentary. Up until around 3300 BCE pottery was often left with no decoration. From that point on, most pottery would have a polished surface. In order to attain this polished look the Egyptians would burnish the pottery with a stone (Reshafim). This technique better showed the native red clay. To decorate the pots they would carve geometric patterns or hunting scenes into the polished surface which is similar to the modern day technique of sgraffito we have used in this class albeit we apply underglaze beforehand. Similarly, the Egyptians used open fires or very simple kilns (Reshafim), and they had to construct their pottery using only their hands, seeing as the potter's wheel only began to come into use during the Old Kingdom (Reshafim) while we in 2016 have all of these commodities at hand. Circa 3000 BCE pottery began to be more aesthetically pleasing as potters would decorate their pottery with depictions of animals, humans, boats, gods and goddesses, and a wide array of other patterns and symbols (Hood). Consequently, pottery began to be viewed as not only a functional object, but more importantly, an expression of religious sentiment and of revered symbols (Reshafim). Lastly, the underglaze we use today is remarkably

Egyptians believed in afterlife, it was considered to be a happy place. This can be found out from the paintings in the tombs.

during the middle ages the pyramid was used as a defensive stronghold. When the people that had found the entrance for the burial room, they had found that there were wall paintings on the insides of the burial chamber. We now know that the style of painting inside the chamber was the third Pompeian style. Alexander the VII had ordered for restoration of the pyramid and that had added the inscriptions that are on the sides of the pyramid. The inscriptions on the south-east side of the pyramid read: “Gaius Cestius Epulo, son of Lucius, of the Poblacion district, praetor, tribune of the people, official of the public banquets. According to his will, this work was completed in three hundred and thirty days; it was executed by his heirs L. Pontus Mela, son of Publius, of the Claudian district, and his freedman Pothus.” The second inscription mentions that the pyramid was supposed to take 330 days to complete but had taken

The gourd-shaped wine ewer with inlaid grapevine is a ceramic piece that is currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. This piece is from the Goryeo dynasty of 13th century Korea. It is made from stoneware that was coated with a celadon glaze. A piece like this would have typically had a lid, but like most similar pieces it was lost over time. The methods of making such pieces has changed and shifted over the years. Korean pottery has it’s own presence as well as having taken inspiration from other cultures and locations.

A pyramid is an amazing structure shaped like a triangle with four sides meeting at a point. The first rulers of Egypt were buried underground. Later kings wanted a more permeant tombs so that’s when Egyptians first started to making pyramids. Pyramids can be found in many parts of the world. Eventually since grave robbers were robbing the tombs, the tombs moved to the valley of the kings.

Ancient Greek pottery, these decorative patterns primitive and simple, pottery, soil and glaze, etc. have a high level, truly reflects the era of people's aesthetic concepts and social productivity levels. From the time of Homer in 8th century BC to the Persian War of the 5th century BC.

In Egypt there were rulers that were buried in an underground tomb.there was also tombs that were built with lots of mud bricks.in a step pyramid the sides of it rises up to a point.

The Great Pyramid of Giza, the largest of the pyramids, was built in 2589 BC for King Khufu, it took 23 years to complete and remains standing today over 2,000 years later. The Great Pyramid of Giza provides a comprehensive understanding, as archaeological evidence, of the old kingdom and the political role of the Pharaoh and religion revealing insight to the mathematical intelligence of the ancient Egyptians. Through the intellect, religion and politics embedded within the structure, much information about the society of the Egyptians is revealed.

The pharaoh SETI was very powerful and he conquered Libya and was the father of another great pharaoh Ramses II. The tomb of SETI was found in the nineteenth Century. (Harris 18)The royal tomb of SETI was robbed even though it was set into the Rock of the valley of the kings.(Harris 36) It was hundreds of feet long and hidden in fake path. In 1922 a gold deal mask was found of a the boy pharaoh named Tutankhamun. Pharaohs were buried in the valley of the kings since 1500 b.c. (Harris

The pyramid complex at Giza where the kings of the 4th Dynasty were buried illustrates the ability of Egyptian architects to construct monuments that remain wonders of the world. The Great Pyramid of Khufu originally stood about 146 m (480 ft) high and contained about 2.3 million blocks with an average weight of 2.5 tonnes each. The purpose of pyramids was to preserve and protect the bodies of the kings for eternity. Each pyramid had a valley temple, a landing and staging area, and a pyramid temple or cult chapel where religious rites for the king's spirit were performed. Around the three major pyramids at Giza a necropolis (city of the dead) grew up, which contained mastabas (Arabic, mastabah, "mud-brick bench"), flat-roofed tombs with sloping slides, so called because of their resemblance to the sloped mud-brick benches in front of Egyptian houses. The mastabas were for the members of the royal family, high

Pottery started out as functional, but became more ornamental as the centires continued. the themes of the painted and carved porcelain were mostly nature scenes, but they were also from folklore. Artrists originaly molded the clay with their hands and set it in the sun to try. Eventualy they began to use a potter's wheel, and they used a glaze at the same time as the romans.