Home / Albums / Tags Country:Egypt + Art 14
- Bronze Cat
- The Soul - back view
- Statuette in wood 2
- The Soul - front view
- Statuette in wood
- The lady Touî, statuette in wood
- Pectoral in shape of a hawk with a ram’s head
- Pectoral of Ramses II
- Egyptian jewellery of the XIXTH dynasty
- Gold pectoral inlaid with enamel
- Statue of Rânofir
- The Colossus of Ramses II emerging from the earth
- Ancient Egypt’s strange books and pictorial records, made of papyrus
Papyrus, a tall, graceful, sedgy plant, supplied the favourite writing material of the ancient world, and many priceless records of antiquity are preserved to us in papyri. The pith of the plant was pressed flat and thin and joined with others to form strips, on which records were written or painted. The above is a photograph of a piece of Egyptian papyrus, showing both hieroglyphics and picture-writing. The oldest piece of papyrus dates back to B.C. 3500. - Vivid scenes of ancient life depicted by contemporary artists
The walls of the tombs in Egypt form a great picture gallery of the vanished life of that country and are invaluable to the historian. This fragment from the British Museum shows how vividly the domestic figures were realised.