Ancient Egyptian shoes: Straw flip-flops from ancient Egypt Many Egyptians went barefoot Many people in ancient Egypt went barefoot their whole lives. It was warm in Egypt even in the [...]
Ancient Egyptian clothing: Rahotep and Nefret Ancient Egyptian tunics Unlike most of the people of the ancient Mediterranean, people in ancient Egypt did not wear just one or two big [...]
Rahotep and Nefret You might think that Egyptian art would start out not very good, a little rough, and then little by little artists would learn more about carving and painting [...]
Rameses III and prisoners About 1500 BC, new rulers unified Egypt again as the New Kingdom. At first, their sculptures and paintings were not much different from the sculptures and [...]
Amenemhet III, Egyptian pharaoh By the time of the Middle Kingdom, about 2000 BC, Egyptian sculptors, like other Egyptian artists, were beginning to work in a new style. Senroset, [...]
This scene is from the tomb of Ti, who was an important government official in the Middle Kingdom. With the collapse of the Old Kingdom about 2160 BC, there was [...]
Early Egyptian sculpture (4500 BC) People began to carve sculptures in Egypt about 4500 BC, about the same time as in West Asia and in southern Africa. These early sculptures [...]
Egyptian pottery: Naqada II clay jar (Egypt, 3500 BC)Metropolitan Museum, NYC When did Egyptian pottery get started? People in Egypt started to make pottery about 4000 BC, ten thousand years [...]
Early Egyptian wall painting: A person in a boat (Barramiya, Upper Egypt, ca. 4000 BC) Stone Age rock carvings The earliest art from North Africa is carvings of giraffes and [...]
Egyptian music and musicians The earliest Egyptian music People in Egypt, like other people in Africa, have probably been playing music since the early Stone Age, long before there is [...]
