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"From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us"
"From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us"
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Egyptian civilization can be traced back thousands of years. In fact, Nomadic modern human hunter-gatherers began living in the Nile valley through the end of the Middle Pleistocene some 120,000 years ago.
Though true for most cultures around the world, without art, we would know much less about Egyptian history. Egyptians would draw and paint every aspect of their lives, from the daily happenings in the palace to the life of farmers. They would not only create art documenting life but also wrote about their world (using hieroglyphics, a picture based writing).
Examples of hieroglyphics
Egyptian drawing and writing about farming.
The Rosetta Stone, found in 1799, is inscribed with three versions of a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt in 196 BCE. The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic script and Demotic script, respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek. As the decree has only minor differences between the three versions, the Rosetta Stone proved to be the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Ancient Egyptians were prolific artists. They expressed their ideas, beliefs, and day-to-day lives through their art. Along with a focus on art, Ancient Egypt centered around mathematics. Everything they built, carved, or drew had the perfection math can offer.
The Sphinx
The Great Pyramids of Giza
Colossal depictions of Ramesses II at one of the Abu Simbel temples
King Tut's death mask
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