Egypt's Old Kingdom

Improved Essays
What kind of arts did Egyptian create during Egypt’s Old Kingdom? Theses/them: I will explain about the importance of art and artistic styles in the Egyptian old Kingdoms.
The civilization of ancient Greece was one of the oldest world civilizations that located along the Nile River.it happened many years ago yet it had a great influence on the way we live today because Egyptian made essential disclosures in art and valued imagination and beauty. The two ways to diagram the history of Ancient Egypt are Dynasties and Kingdoms and Periods. The three kingdoms were the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms and after every kingdom there is a "moderate" period. Egypt's Old Kingdom ( 2575-2150 BCE) was one of the most powerful periods in the advancement

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    This lesson describes the three kingdoms of Egypt under pharaohs’ rulings. Through the three individual works of art and the video, we learn about the beginning, upheaval, and eventual conquers of Egypt that lead to its Golden…

    • 398 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Egyptian Disruption In the year 1352 BC a pharaoh named Amenhotep IV came to power in Egypt. He inherited a peaceful nation at the height of its prosperity from his father Amenhotep III. However, he attempted to lead a religious, political and artistic revolution that was so disruptive that he was met with resistance from nearly every level.…

    • 1302 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Three Kingdoms: The Old Kingdom, The Middle Kingdom, and The New Kingdom. Information about their governments in “VI. Ancient Egyptian Government and Hierarchy” (Britannica) Egyptian Writing and Language “Earliest evidence for writing the Egyptian language in hieroglyphs dates to about 3300 B.C.E.” (GALE Student Resources) “ Egyptian was the first written language in the eastern Mediterranean” (GALE Student Resources) “earliest known inscriptions, a group…

    • 1125 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Tombs consisted of sculptures and wall paintings that were created for those in their next life. Egyptian history is divided into 30 different dynasties. In the earliest Dynasty period, a carved slate slab, showed Narmer raising his “arm holding a club, about to crush the head of his enemy.” The Old Kingdom at the time 2650-2150 B.C., is known to be the great period of the Egyptian Civilization, that started by the Kind Zoser.…

    • 736 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Not only did ancient Egypt have a sufficient amount of food to supply for themselves, they also had such a surplus, that they could supply their neighbors with their grain. First and foremost, having a food surplus wasn’t the most common because usually civilizations only had what was necessary, instead of extra. Also, Egypt is in the middle of a desert, so them having a surplus in grains is far from what would be expected. Egypt is sometimes referred to as the “Breadbasket” of the ancient world because of this. Lake Victoria was in the middle of a rain forest, causing a lot of water in the Lake, which eventually flowed North to Egypt.…

    • 373 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Although there are many differences between Ancient Egypt and modern times, Ancient Egypt has made an impact on today’s world because of their art, architecture, and food. First of all, their art influences how we live today and how art affects us today. Their art influences us today because we make statues or sculptures of people who have passed away that we want to honor because of their importance. Ancient Egyptian art also influences us because we sometimes use art, such as statues or paintings, for religious purposes. For example, Christians may have paintings or sculptures of a cross, for that represents the Christian religion.…

    • 414 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ancient Egypt always fascinates me, especially learning about the Pharaohs. Akhenaten is a very famous Pharaoh, and for good reason too. His reign, death, and the discovery of his tomb are especially interesting. Akhenaten’s reign was very different from other Pharaohs.…

    • 334 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Historians and archeologists have found evidence of human civilization in the Nile Valley dating as far back as 120,000 years ago. Over time, population began to grow and divide itself into two kingdoms, Upper and Lower Egypt. Around 3150 B.C., a pharaoh from the Early Dynastic Period gained control of both kingdoms uniting them to form the Egypt known today. With a population of 90 million, it makes Egypt the third most populated country in all of Africa. Roughly, 20 percent of this population lives within 20 kilometers of the Nile River.…

    • 984 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Nawal Elghourab MUSHL 107 April 16, 2018 Music in Egypt: From the Ancient World to Modern Times In Egyptian culture, music has played an integral part of society since Ancient Egyptian times. Instruments ranging from the flutes, harps, and percussion instruments were documented to have been used by the ancient Egyptians. Currently, the most similar music to that of Ancient Egyptian traditions is the Sufi zikr ritual. The zikr ritual is a type of Egyptian folk music that has preserved the rhythms and use of instruments from ancient Egyptian traditions. Modern Egyptian pop music is now the most popular music, particularly amongst the large youth population of the country.…

    • 1150 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ancient African people made many beneficial contributions to the society. Some of their greatest accomplishments occurred in astronomy, math, medicine, navigation, architecture, engineering, tools, and metallurgy. A lot of treatments in medicine used today were employed from several ancient people from Africa. One of these treatments is when doctors use salicylic acid for pain. Inventions used now that come from their metallurgy are steam engines, metal chisels, saws, copper/iron tools, weapons, glue, nails, and art.…

    • 388 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Geography and Early Egypt Do you know about early life and early egypt? Many different types of things. For example, The Nile, Menes, and the two kingdoms. They are all very different but, very interesting.…

    • 412 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It emerged around 3100 BCE, under the first Pharaoh known as Menes. Thirty-One Dynasties ruled of Egypt, including the last dynasty, the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Many incredible things happened in Egypt, including: the building of the pyramids in 2560 BCE. Religious revolutions, the abandonment of polytheism for monotheism around 1350 BCE. The rise of King Tut, the boy king in 1332 BCE.…

    • 1680 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ancient Egypt Agriculture

    • 473 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Whether you know a lot about Egypt or very little, they provide our society today with fascinating clues to the past. Very advanced in agriculture and having further knowledge of the Nile River, the Ancient Egyptians thought they would be invincible forever. However, that didn’t last long until it all came to a halting stop. Agriculture was the foundation of early success for the Ancient Egyptians when they first emerged.…

    • 473 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    An ancient Egyptian temple at Abu Simbel had a granary that could store enough grain to feed 20,000 people for a year (Fernandez-Armesto 56-65). The ancient Egyptians, like all of the other river valley civilizations were completely dependent on agriculture for food and wealth, as Fernandez-Armesto says, “without agriculture, people could have no security of life.” Without agriculture people would not know where their next meal would come from, but with agriculture they would always know where their next meal was coming from. For the Egyptians, wheat and barley were the most commonly grown crops, these crops were used to make bread and beer of the civilization. The ancient Egyptian were known as “bread eaters” by people living around Egypt,…

    • 1661 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Ancient Egypt has contributed a variety of things ranging from, architecture, art deco, astronomy, astrology, and time to women’s liberation. Architecture is the most obvious one considering the pyramids and the fact that the complex design of the Kufu’s Pyramid is still undiscovered. Art deco in the twenties and thirties was modeled after the wooden furniture found in King Tut’s tomb. Egyptians’ focused on astronomy and astrogeology as one “science”. They found them to be correlated because their calendar lined up with celestial events and observations.…

    • 1356 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays