Predynastic Egypt

However, comparatively along other societies they reflect a people not known to be early adopters of new ideas and technology (Wood 2015: 78). For example, Egypt had been interacting with Mesopotamia for more than two thousand years before adopting the well- sweep, which by then had been in use to irrigate land. Furthermore, there is no evidence of the use of the potter’s wheel in Egypt (Roberts 1997: 56), a Mesopotamian invention ca. 3500 B.C.E. (Podany and McGee 2005: 30), before the Old Kingdom (ca. 2686-2181) (Roberts 1997: 56). This pattern is also observable in Egypt’s adoption of the Canaanite jar. Egypt and Canaan’s economic relationship dates to the 4th millennium B.C.E. or Predynastic period evidenced from “stamped clay sealings and bullae found in southern Israel (Ahituv 1999: 187).’’ Egyptian awareness of the Canaanite commercial jar was as earlier as the late Middle Kingdom to Second Intermediate Period (ca. 1800-1550) (Wood 1987: 78) as “Asiatic settlers brought with them, and no doubt continued to produce locally, their native wares, including the handled store jar. Many examples of handled Syro-Palestinian store jars have been recovered from these…

One of the most important stages to define and understand the development of Egyptian civilization was the Predynastic era (the Egyptian Neolithic), a period of time spanning from 4000 to 3200 BC that was a precursor of Pharaonic Egypt and its dynasties of kings. Neolithic communities of Upper and Lower Egypt cultivated different kinds of barley, spelt, flax, fruits and vegetables. It is also known that different kinds of animals were domesticated. Both steps were necessary for all later…

Have you have wondered about the pharaohs of Egypt or who created the First Dynasty? That was Narmer the last pharaoh of his time accomplishing creating the First Dynasty known to man . He made history just by bringing two lands of Egypt together. He is known as either Narmer or Menes. Narmer being his birth name the name Menes given to him as an honorific name. There was a palette found by Narmer’s tomb named Narmer’s Palette. It contains some of the earliest hieroglyphic writing known to man.…

Chapter 3 Summary Chapter three discusses the art found in Egypt. It 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…

The Egyptian people of the Predynastic period show that even before domestication, mankind was familiar with these animals. Archaeologists unearthed wild cat remains that were consciously put into human graves in Predynastic sites such as al-Badari and Abydos (CITE). In the eleventh Dynasty, there was a painting found at Koptos, Egypt that depicted a cat sitting behind the feet of a woman; this activity and depiction suggest that the woman had some kind of protection and control over the cat. By…

Hey it’s me Nicole in egypt.It’s so fascinating how egypt religion is.I had some questions about it.Like this question how did they know about the god’s and goddesses? Some of my responses are “early predynastic tribes venerated their own particular gods, who were usually embodied in a particular animal.” which means that tribes make their own gods. Which are mostly animal like.Another response is “Temples in ancient Egypt were devoted to individual gods.The meaning of it is people think that…

Horus Narmer is usually considered the first king of the 1st Dynasty, perhaps even the first to have ruled over the whole of Egypt, or as the last king of the Predynastic Period. He is one of the first Egyptian kings to have left some historical records. Very little is known about the king we call Horus Narmer. Even the reading and meaning of his name are not certain. What we do know is that his name has been found throughout Egypt, which is sometimes interpreted that Narmer was the first king…

This week we learned about the chapter, Egypt Under the Pharaohs in the Old, Middle, and New Kingdom. I will be cornering in on the art of the Palate of King Narmer, the Fragmentary head of Senuret III, and Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters. I will also be discussing “Egypt’s Golden Empire: The Warrior Pharaohs”. In the Old Kingdom, the front and back carvings on the Palette of King Narmer were of big focus. Dated circa 3000-2920 BCE, from Hierakonpolis, Egypt, in the Predynastic era,…

Mummies, pyramids, tombs. All three of these icons of death are associated with ancient Egypt. This was a deeply religious society obsessed with death and the continuation of life in the afterlife. As such, many steps were taken to preserve the body and possessions of the dead as they journeyed to the Duat (underworld) in death. These steps included mummification of the body, storage of household objects, jewelry, and whatever possessions were deemed necessary for the next life. However,…

The history of ancient Egypt is a very long and convoluted chronicle, one that is characterized by many betrayal, conspiracy and secrets. Although the story of ancient Egypt spanned over five thousand years ( from the predynastic era, all the way to the classical antiquity with the romans ) they have been a few monarch who s character, influence, reign and legacy was able to withstand the test of time. Imhotep, unlike many if not all the famous figure of ancient Egypt was not a king and…