Cleopatra VII

Fayum Portraits: Greco-Roman Egyptian Mummies? The Fayum mummy portraits emerged from a time of great change in Ancient Egypt—a time of decline in the ancient Egyptian religious traditions. Alongside this decline, there was also a rise in Greco-Roman influences on the aesthetic values of Egyptian art—through the first century BCE to the first centuries CE—particularly those that were used in religious rituals, such as temples, wall paintings, and the actual adornment of the mummies themselves.…

techniques similar to those used today, and was used to house large stores of provisions, as well as storing small necessary items. The ancient Egyptian culture flourished from 5500 BCE, with the rise of technology such as glass-work, to 30 BCE, when Cleopatra VII died, the last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt (Ancient). When you think of ancient…

state. This was all disrupted, however, when they came under control of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic empire in 332 BCE, and later by Ptolemy and the Ptolemaic empire (Fildes and Fletcher 1). Finally in 30 BCE, following the death of Cleopatra VII, Egypt fell to Roman control. (Wasson 1). Unfortunately, Egypt suffered greatly under both Ptolemaic and Roman conquests. When Rome took over, the empire implemented a number of legal and social structures onto the new Egyptian empire that…

After the death of Cleopatra VII, Egypt was annexed into the Roman Empire and the country became essential to the empire’s economic well being. In addition to that, Egypt’s multicultural population helped influence and forge a Roman Egypt that extended to Rome’s impact on the nation’s art and culture. This included painted panel portraits on mummies and busts, both of which were used in funerary commemorations. These funerary commemorations include the Mummy portrait of a Woman and the Bust of a…

The Underworld and Prophecy Before all of this, Aeneas’s travels in leaving Troy have produced every kind of upheaval, but by Book 3 he knows that a country to the west holds his destiny. Aeneas continues through all sorts of marine and other miraculous events but loses his father, Anchises. It is not until Book 7 that Aeneas’s idea of a destination to the west is confirmed and made specific in instructions to go to the mouth of the Tiber River and make a pact with King Latinus. Later,…

Neolithic (late Stone Age) communities in northeastern Africa exchanged hunting for agriculture and made early advances that paved the way for the later development of Egyptian arts and crafts, technology, politics and religion (including a great reverence for the dead and possibly a belief in life after death). Around 3400 B.C., two separate kingdoms were established: the Red Land to the north, based in the Nile River Delta and extending along the Nile perhaps to Atfih; and the White Land in…