Egyptian pantheon

Jericho was one of the first cities ever to be created, and also the first fortified town. The outer wall was over 20 feet tall, and 6.5 feet thick, and the inner wall was even taller and wider. It also happened to be the promise land that the lord had promised the Israelites. Conquering the city of Jericho was a seemingly impossible task due to the massive walls protecting the city, but the Lord had a plan. The Lord told Joshua of his plan to conquer the city, and Joshua told his people exactly…

starts off with the predynastic and early dynastic periods. In the predynastic era, Egypt was geographically distributed into an upper and lower Egypt. The era also began with a Pharaonic monarchy deeming King Narmer as the ruler. During this time Egyptian artists began making narrative reliefs and paintings, including one of the earliest documented historical artwork, the Narmer palette. King Narmer’s image and name appear on both sides of the ceremonial plate. Although people are still unsure…

Art of Ancient Egypt Introduction The art of Ancient Egypt refers to the architecture, sculpture, painting, and other parts that were produced by ancient Egyptians. These works of art were produced by the Egyptian civilization that was located in the lower Nile valley and most of them appeared between 3000 BC and 100 AD. The art of Ancient Egypt was characterized by highly developed sculpture and painting which were both very symbolic and stylized. Most of the Ancient Egypt art that has…

language and although it is usually associated with Egypt, some scholars believe that it first came centuries before it was introduced in Egypt in Mesopotamia; however, it was highly modified (392). The hieroglyphic writing was used by the Ancient Egyptians between 3100 BC. until 1100 AD. and its origin remains a mystery to this day (391). Scholars suggest that it probably started out as pictographic writing on papyrus which also uses drawings and pictures as phonetic letters or determinative…

Madeline Danielson Ms. Prewitt H. Algebra II – E Block 8 May 2017 Egyptian Numbers The numbers of Ancient Egypt arose around 3000 BC. At this time the Egyptian society was already advanced, urbanized, and expanding rapidly long before the creation of the written numeral system. The new advances in mathematics became too detailed for the human brain to remember so the need arose for the written system. The Egyptians felt the need to move away from oral culture because of the importance of the…

The cities of Cairo, Egypt and Yucatan, Mexico are home to some of the most remarkable structures of architecture within the ancient world. Such structures as the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and the El Castillo in Mexico. These two structures are located miles apart from one another on two vastly different continents. However, both share similarities within their structural shape. But differ in their overall structural design and purpose within their civilizations. The structural shape…

It is the year of 2554 B.C. a loud bang as another brick is put on the great pyramid. My name is Ubaid I am 12 years old and I live in egypt. The pharaoh is the great King Menes. It is a sad week, my uncle died and could not afford a tomb, so he has to be buried in the sand. My uncle Aziza lost all his money buying medicine to help his mom because she had a deadly virus. His mother didn't have money for him…

There have been numerous compulsive and controversial theories regarding the mysteries of Stonehenge and what lies beneath. There are countless unanswered questions and so many people who believe they have the answers. The truth is nobody really knows what its official purpose was, who built it, how it was built and when exactly it was made? You have to wonder if we will ever truly have the answers. The Stonehenge stands frozen in time as a prehistoric monument in the heart of Wiltshire,…

Stonehenge one of the more popular “big stones” amongst the groups of what are classified as menhirs caught my attention because of its majestic structure and its beautiful green body of land which just pokes out at you and grabs the eye. What immediately drew me into this glorious architectural construction is the complexity of its body of work. Instantly I became so concerned because I couldn’t help but think well how did they do it? Good question how did they construct such a sophisticated…

The temple of the sun is a smaller and steeper temple than Bacchus. The sun temple was built from piles of rubble with an outer layer of limestone blocks or volcanic rock which is mostly solid rock with internal features. The Sun temple has 3 million tons of rock material and was built without being built of metal tools the use of animals or the wheel invention The temple was built with stone block and held together with lime mortar and covered with plaster then painted like a fresco secco the…