Thursday, January 9, 2014

Did Pharaohs civilization affect us in our daily life now?

Ancient Egypt was a very diverse culture in the fact that their religion was different than any other ancient civilization; they had many interesting structures that are still standing which include various pyramids and temples.  
The time of the ancient Egyptians lead some of our daily tools like paper which originally came from the papyrus paper that they cleverly invented and used to write and paint on.  
Egypt is very dry, with one main source of water, the Nile River, this influenced how houses were built, what food they ate, and what their clothing was made out of.  

The ancient Egyptians had their wealthy powerful people like the pharaoh, but they also had the poor who had to have their family work in the fields to survive.  
Ancient Egypt was a civilization that is recognized for many attributes such as: the climate, paintings, social structure, the afterlife of an Egyptian, and the jobs.  

Even though our lives today are much different and settled than the time of ancient Egypt there are still some things that remain the same, like music, some art, marriage, some foods and in most cases family life.  In conclusion the dry land of ancient Egypt looks much like is does today, the daily life however, is much different

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Daily Life in Ancient Egypt (Art / Music)

Due to the fact that all Egyptians were very strong belief for their religion most of their art and music was based on their religion (gods, and goddesses).
Music played a very important role in their culture and daily life. From many wall paintings in the tombs of the pyramids and in Luxor and Aswan there are scenes of musicians playing during the ceremony of the mummy. Music was in Egyptians daily lives by being a hobby for adults and kids. Some instruments that we see now are similar to the ones that were played in ancient Egypt would be hand drums, harp, and many wood instruments.  

Thanks to ancient Egyptian arts we are now have full information about their history, because they used to record all their activities and affairs on the walls of temples and pyramids, as Art was everywhere from in the tombs, houses, and outside (sculptors) that is how important it was to the Egyptians. Ancient Egypt was the first civilization to have paper (papyrus) and that made it a whole new way for artists to paint. There were many ways that art was established from wall paintings to carvings. Many people recognized Egyptian art from the way people, gods, goddesses were drawn which body facing forward, and head and feat was facing to the side.  In Modern Egypt there are and still celebrated festivals that have been in the Egyptians religion since ancient Egypt. One very symbolic festival for especially farming is the Leylet en Nuktah. Leylet en Nuktah is a annual celebration of the flooding of the Nile River, it is annually on the 17th of June because that is near the period of when the river would flood. In ancient Egypt if the flooding was late an attractive Egyptian women would be sacrificed in order for the river god HABI to be satisfied and it would betrayal a bad harvesting