Art History
Kareem Hines
Chapter 3
Egypt under the Pharaohs I have always found the time of pharaohs to be very interesting. I’ve seen plenty of movies about the times in Egypt of slavery and pharaohs and the building of the pyramids but as I got older I always started to wonder what the time was really like. Going over chapter three I found that that time period was actually very important in a lot of ways but even more important was their use of art and the forms they used it in, all the amazing monuments that were built by them, the writings and drawings on the walls full of stories and different interpretations. The time of these great accomplishments span over three millennia. Even years after the pyramids and hieroglyphics were made people coming across them still found them vastly interesting and amazing. The middle ages was a great example of this, people at the time saw Egypt as a mystic place full of wisdom and wonders. They were amazed by what the Egyptians had created and how beautiful and creative all of it was. Scholars studied the statues, monuments, and hieroglyphics for years and still do today just to try to understand a little more about their culture and their art as a civilization but it wasn’t until much later after the time that they found the key to deciphering the writings on the walls. A group of linguists and scholars found the Rosetta stone which was a key to understand the hieroglyphics, on it was 3 writings, one was in Greek which could be understood by the scholars, another was in demotic which was figured out to be a dead Egyptian language and the last was the hieroglyphics. Scholars believed that they all said the same thing and that it was the translation key to understand the massive amounts of hieroglyphics found all around Egypt. This was a huge discovery for the history of Egypt and helped to produce more curiosity about Ancient Egypt culture and their distinct art. There were a lot of things about Egypt’s art the made it distinct
Chapter 3
Egypt under the Pharaohs I have always found the time of pharaohs to be very interesting. I’ve seen plenty of movies about the times in Egypt of slavery and pharaohs and the building of the pyramids but as I got older I always started to wonder what the time was really like. Going over chapter three I found that that time period was actually very important in a lot of ways but even more important was their use of art and the forms they used it in, all the amazing monuments that were built by them, the writings and drawings on the walls full of stories and different interpretations. The time of these great accomplishments span over three millennia. Even years after the pyramids and hieroglyphics were made people coming across them still found them vastly interesting and amazing. The middle ages was a great example of this, people at the time saw Egypt as a mystic place full of wisdom and wonders. They were amazed by what the Egyptians had created and how beautiful and creative all of it was. Scholars studied the statues, monuments, and hieroglyphics for years and still do today just to try to understand a little more about their culture and their art as a civilization but it wasn’t until much later after the time that they found the key to deciphering the writings on the walls. A group of linguists and scholars found the Rosetta stone which was a key to understand the hieroglyphics, on it was 3 writings, one was in Greek which could be understood by the scholars, another was in demotic which was figured out to be a dead Egyptian language and the last was the hieroglyphics. Scholars believed that they all said the same thing and that it was the translation key to understand the massive amounts of hieroglyphics found all around Egypt. This was a huge discovery for the history of Egypt and helped to produce more curiosity about Ancient Egypt culture and their distinct art. There were a lot of things about Egypt’s art the made it distinct