Tombs In Vergina

The work I chose to analyze was from a wall fragment from the tomb of Ameneemhet and wife Hemet called Mummy Case of Paankhenamun, found in the Art Institute of Chicago. The case of the Mummy Paankhenamun is one of the most exquisite pieces of art produced by the Egyptian people during the time before Christ. This coffin belonged to a man named Paankhenamun, which translates to “He Lives for Amun” (Hornblower & Spawforth 74). Paankhenamun was the doorkeeper of the temple of the god Amun, a position he inherited from his father.

A Formal Analysis of Death Mask Based on Gold Death Mask from Mycenae, Grave Circle A, Shaft Grave IV circa 1550 BC

Discovered by Howard Carter in 1922, the tomb of King Tutankhamen is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in history. The unearthing of the tomb was the result of years of works that was painstaking and that was also hard. Just like ay other important discovery. Howard Carter had first come to the Valley of the Tombs in 1891. To sift the sands and search for hidden treasures. Howard Carter's dream--indeed, the dream of every Egyptologist-- was that he would discover a tomb. A tomb prey to which had been unopened since antiquity, a tomb which had fallen prey to graverobbers.Lord Carnarvon, who was a British nobleman who was interested in archaeology, financed Carter's archaeological digs. Years of work turned up a few interesting

The Sarcophagus of Queen Hatshepsut is considered one of the most historic pieces of ancient Egyptian art that still stands here today in our presence. It is an exquisite work of art, a piece of enlightenment and even a masterpiece that earned a place in the realm of art history. It is one of only three royal sarcophagi that is currently displayed outside of Egypt and is one of they very few from the eighteenth Dynasty that shows multiple alterations and phases of decorations. This sarcophagus was originally prepared for Queen Hatshepsut and later was recut for her father, King Thutmose I. This is an artistic masterpiece from a royal atelier, a prototype for the funeral beliefs and the traditions, and a pivotal historical piece of the complicated puzzle of early New Kingdom political history.

The inner coffin was found lying on its back. It was created around 380 BC- 250 BC in the Ptolemaic Period meaning it’s

Since our culture does not leave much documentation, my tomb must be used to provide an awareness and understanding of how we live our lives. My husband was able to achieve hegemony through the main activities of agriculture and metallurgy , eventually becoming known as a dignitary, making us a well-known family and an important part of the aristocracy in the Etruscan society. The Banditaccia necropolis in Cerveteri is where my noble family

According to National Geographic's article on finding the remains of this warrior, the tomb found in 2015 is quite unusual. Excavators found this tomb while exploring a small stone shaft at Pylos. There lied a well preserved skeleton of a man in his thirties that was buried with over 1,400 artifacts that were on and around the body. The remains found dated to be around 1500 BC.

Guided by “The Illiad” to a site in modern day Turkey, Schliemann, a German archaeologist, discovered a set of rings, coins, goblets, earrings, pendants and diadems knows to us as the Trojan treasure or Priam’s treasure. A collection of 259 gold, sliver and copper peices of jewlery is a small but exclusive share of the more than 8 000 pieces Schliemann unearthed between 1872 and 1890, in his lifelong quest to prove that the Trojan myths were not fiction but instead historical fact.

When dealing with burial sites some information is needed before any excavation can take place, whether it is a mass or single grave site. Some of the basic information needed would be the number of victims or the year of burial. This information will help plan for the number of workers, resources, and equipment needed for the excavation to take place. When locating a suspected grave site, the main source is a witness, it is important to get information from more than one witness because a witness may be under emotional stress, which may cause them to provide unreliable information. Other ways to locate a new gravesite would be differences in type and growth of vegetation, depressions in the soil, differences in soil composition while probing

Though the Etruscans “may have borrowed Greek myths to use in their art, as in the Tomb of the Bulls, … they also created something culturally individual in their wall paintings” (Mason, n.d.). The Etruscans were the first to create wall paintings also known to us as frescoes. The love for nature and belief in the afterlife were depicted in Etruscan’s paintings. “Etruscans used paintings as well as architecture and sculpture in the service of the dead… The subjects represented most frequently in Etruscan tomb paintings were funeral rites or optimistic scenes of aristocratic pleasures-banquets, sports, dances, and music-making” (Adams, 2012, p. 122).

These graves have been dated back to approximately 2500 BCE. These royal graves were buried with spectacular objects crafted of gold and lurid evidence of the human sacrifices associated with Sumerian royal burial practices, when retainers were seemingly buried with

This approach to the opening of the chamber demonstrates Carter’s caution that he took into the excavation of Tutankhamun’s tomb and the transportation of the contents that was inside it. Carter opened the burial chamber and when he did he was confronted by the golden walls and two large statues “So enormous was this structure (17 feet by 11 feet, and 9 feet high, we found out afterwards) that it filled within a little the entire area of the chamber” gives an accurate description of these statues and an accurate account of the amount of artefacts that were found in Tutankhamun’s tomb.

The first blog post I want to discuss is titled “Tuesday Tomb-KV2”. This post covers Egyptology as it focuses around the history and design of the tomb of Ramesses the IV. The tomb is a little over 3000 years old and located in the Valley of the Kings. Although the tomb was completed it is

The ten ‘Royal Tombs’ contained, or had once contained, the remains of a primary individual who had been buried within the tomb chamber. The skeletal remains from these tombs indicated that the principle individual hadn’t been interred alone, but that the sacrificial victims had been placed in the tomb at the same time. Additional victims were buried in the courtyard that surrounded the tomb, as well as in the shafts leading down to some of the tombs. This suggests that sacrifices continued to be made as the tomb and death-pit complex was refilled. Of the sixteen graves, Woolley was impressed with PG 789 and PG 800. These two burial complexes produced rich grave goods and the skeletal remains of at least 86 human beings.

Sometimes the one of the most interesting things about an artwork is what has happened to it since it was made. This mortuary temple of Ramesses was actually moved in the 1960s up the hill. The Egyptians needed to build a dam on the Nile, and it would flood the original location. Many countries got together to help preserve and move this massive monument. Here is a little video about the move: