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Evidenced by large pottery remnants that included fish and animal bones, Ayman Ashmawi, head of the Egyptian Archaeological Sector of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, confirmed the use of some ...
The “Ancient Marvels” Facebook page is dedicated to interesting posts displaying human and natural artifacts from across history. The post 100 Archaeology And Ancient History-Related Pics For ...
Hunting. Hunting was practiced as a way to gather food and for self-defense against wild animals in ancient Egypt. Once people started domesticating animals and depending on the breeding of animals for food hunting lost its importance as a source of nutrition. As a result of this lesser dependency on hunting for food hunting became a ...
In ancient Egypt, cats were represented in social and religious scenes dating as early as 1980 BC. [ 2 ] Several ancient Egyptian deities were depicted and sculptured with cat-like heads such as Mafdet, Bastet and Sekhmet, representing justice, fertility, and power, respectively. [ 3 ] The deity Mut was also depicted as a cat and in the company ...
A cat eating a fish under a chair, a mural in an Egyptian tomb dating to the 15th century BC. It was long thought that the domestication of the cat began in ancient Egypt, where cats were venerated from around 3100 BC.
Saqqara, Egypt. Present location. British Museum, London. Registration. EA 64391. 3D model. The Gayer-Anderson cat is an ancient Egyptian statue of a cat, which dates from the Late Period (around 664–332 BC). It is made of bronze, with gold ornaments.
Canopic jar. Canopic jars are containers that were used by the ancient Egyptians during the mummification process, to store and preserve the viscera of their owner for the afterlife. The earliest and most common versions were made from stone, but later styles were carved from wood. [1] The ritual use of the jars dates as far back as the Old ...
Many cultures, ancient and modern, have kept fish for both functional and decorative purposes. Ancient Sumerians kept wild-caught fish in ponds, before preparing them for meals. Depictions of the sacred fish of Oxyrhynchus kept in captivity in rectangular temple pools have been found in ancient Egyptian art.