During Han times, a eunuch named Cai Lun came up with a great innovation that would change learning forever. It was paper. But back then, paper was normally used to wrap fish than writing stuff on it. So only few written documents have survived to this day that were mostly found in tombs. Back then most people would write on bamboo slips or wooden tablets.…
The head of the Sphinx statue represents the king and is usually worn by the Mongoose, the royal headdress and the cobra alive in the middle of the head. The Sphinx of Egypt was the image of the sun god. Also the Sphinx used to be a sacred rendering of one of their pharaohs. From the picture of sphinx the sphinx represents the power of the lion (the body) and the wisdom of the man (the head "the mind"). And I believe the ancient Egyptians were trying to deliver a massage to the world by designing the statue half human and half lion…
Cultural Context and Meaning of Egyptian Shabtis Huiyun Wu Nov. 30th, 2015 African Art History Shabti, sometimes called Shawabti or Ushabti, is a sort of mummy shape funerary figurine that is designated to serve the deceased in the afterlife in Ancient Egypt from around 2000BC. They are servants that answer “Here I am” when called by the wealthy owner, who continued their afterlife in the netherworld. Placing shabtis in the coffin is a method to indicate the power and wealthiness the departed owned. Through the appearance of the turquoise faience shabti, social status of the shabtis can be revealed.…
The Great Sphinx is a large human-headed lion that was carved from a hill of natural rock. It is in Giza where it guards the front of Khafra's pyramid. Some people even believe that there are hidden passageways or rooms underneath the Great Sphinx, but nothing has been found yet. The beginning of the story about the Great Sphinx is written on a stela between the sphinx's paws.…
The Rosetta Stone was found in Rosetta, Egypt by a group of French soldiers who were rebuilding a fort in 1799. It is a stone engraved with 3 different types of writing but the same paragraph. The top 2 paragraphs are Ancient Egyptian- hieroglyphic script and Demotic script while the bottom is in Ancient Greek. Why is it in three different scripts? The Rosetta Stone is written in three different types of writing because when it was written, there were three different types of writing being used in Egypt.…
E.L Sukenik published the Hymns Scroll (The Dead Sea Scrolls of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem) in 1954-5. Between 1946 and 1956 the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds and a team of archaeologists. The scrolls contained a series of eleven caves as were found around the site known as Wadi Qumran near the Dead Sea of the Jordan River and it was written in biblical Hebrew. It 's also had over 900 different texts written Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. The early Christianity were using the Dead Sea Scroll as their bible because it represented a religious writings as well as biblical texts.…
A Mosaic is a piece of art created by assembling small pieces of colored glass,ceramic,stone or other materials into an image. Mosaic became a very popular art form during the time of the Roman Empire,both Rome and Italy had this in their time period. Roman Mosaics purpose were to decorate floors,wall,homes,and temples. Floor Mosaics was the most popular art in the Roman…
This period was a time of “innovation and development” for Chinese Buddhism , Innovations such as the invention of the printing press in the Tang dynasty helped maintain the influence of Buddhism. Chinese Buddhist monks seized the opportunity to use the printing press to raise the esteem of their religion, in the same fashion previous Buddhist monks utilized calligraphy to spread Buddhist themes. The earliest printed material, printed between 704 and 751, is a Buddhist charm scroll. Charms, scriptures and literature of the Buddhist faith were produced by monasteries, which were spread throughout China’s many villages and ethnic tribes. This led to the first printed scroll reaching Korea.…
According to the document, the visual language the Mesopotamians use was the cuneiform throughout their Kingdom. The subjects the cuneiform addressed were concrete and display battle, kings, and floods. They were engraved on clay tablets. The story revealed the birth of King Sargon and how he rose to power.…
In Southwest Asia, there is a large band of fertile land called the Fertile Crescent. It curves between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. Within the Fertile Crescent are two rivers: the Tigris and Euphrates. Both these rivers begin in present day Turkey and flow south through Iraq to the Persian Gulf. The land between these two rivers is called Mesopotamia, which in Greek literally means “between the rivers.”…
Photo from the Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya and the Gotoh Museum in Tokyo. A hanging scroll is one of the ways to display and exhibit Chinese painting and calligraphy. The viewer can enjoy the…
“The Tattooer,” by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, presents a sexual obsession and power. His book is based on the Japanese traditions and the West, particularly during the Edo period of 1603 to 1867. During the Edo era, it was a time of economic growth and time for enjoyment of art and culture. Men would beautify themselves by getting a tattoo. They considered strength and beauty one.…
If you ever happen to turn on The History Channel, you'll notice that the channel has gone from showing actual moments in history to hypothetical moments in history that probably never happened at all. Ancient Aliens is basically a show that shows people with little to no educational background in an subject close to Astronomy. For Example: That guy with the crazy hair, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, is a 1998 graduate of Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, with a bachelor's degree in sports information and communication. For several years in the early 2000s, before he made ancient astronaut research his primary career, he served as a bodybuilding promoter in IFBB sanctioned contests, including Mr. Olympia. UFO-SPACE…
The Pyramids are filled with mysteries, such as the real reason they were built, who built them, and many more. Some say the Pyramids were built for Pharaohs and others say that they were built as an alien spaceship. Many say, that the pyramids were built by groups of men, up to 10,000 at a time. Others say that they were built with the large groups, however the men were all under the control of a God.…
Egyptians Egyptians are considered an ethnic group as well as the citizens that call Egypt home. They share a common culture and a variety of Arabic as their spoken language. Because there culture is so fast, our group centered our portions of the presentation on what we believe were the most interesting aspects of Egyptian culture. The first topic that I covered was Egyptian symbols.…