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The customs of ancient Egypt, the daily routine of the population, the cities, the crafts, and the economy derive their importance from agriculture, its needs, and its benefits. Herodotus emphasized that Egypt is the gift of the Nile and that the Nile River is the source of all aspects of life, including the religion of the ancient Egyptians ...
By 1968, she had risen to be the curator and head of department of Egyptian art at the Met and was the editor of several museum monographs. [2] Her main areas of curatorial interest were daily life and decorative arts. [1] She worked at the Met for over 40 years, retiring in 1972. [1] [2]
Map of northern Egypt showing the location of the Tura quarries, Giza and the findspot of the Diary of Merer The Diary of Merer (also known as Papyrus Jarf ) is the name for papyrus logbooks written over 4,500 years ago by Merer, a middle-ranking official with the title inspector ( sḥḏ , sehedj ).
Ancient Egyptian literature has been preserved on a wide variety of media. This includes papyrus scrolls and packets, limestone or ceramic ostraca, wooden writing boards, monumental stone edifices and coffins. Texts preserved and unearthed by modern archaeologists represent a small fraction of ancient Egyptian literary material.
The ancient Egyptians wrote works on papyrus as well as walls, tombs, pyramids, obelisks and more. Perhaps the best known example of ancient Jehiel literature is the Story of Sinuhe; [2] other well-known works include the Westcar Papyrus and the Ebers papyrus, as well as the famous Book of the Dead.
Egyptian sources have not been concerned with describing the daily schedule of the pharaoh. Rather, they tend to magnify the ruler and contextualize their actions in a mythological framework. The description given by the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus in his Bibliotheca historica (Book I, 70-71), although detailed, was done too late - at the ...
The Eloquent Peasant (Ancient Egyptian: Sekhti-nefer-medu, "a peasant good of speech") [1] is an Ancient Egyptian story that was composed around 1850 BCE during the time of the Middle Kingdom in Egypt. It is one of the longest Egyptian tales that has survived completed. [2]
This ancient Egyptian scribe's palette is estimated to be from 1500-500 BCE. The Satire of the Trades is a "schoolboy text", meaning it was used to teach young scribes the values and tasks required for the profession. [8] Scribes in training were expected to memorize and inscribe passages from the text as a pedagogical method.