There’s more to the eye makeup that gave Queen Nefertiti and other ancient Egyptian those stupendous gazes and legendary beauty than meets the eye. Scientists in France are reporting that the alluring eye makeup also may have been used to help prevent or treat eye disease by doubling as an
The export of glass tile making from Egypt to the Mediterranean world, allowed the Egyptians themselves to create a stunning mosaic art tradition, examples of which you can buy from Artemission. Explaining mosaics Mosaic making is the art of using small pieces of coloured glass, stone and other materials to
Hieroglyphs – the picture writing of ancient Egypt, is the oldest writing system in the world. It predates the wedge-shaped cuneiform writing of Mesopotamia (Iraq) by about 50 to 100 years. Recently examples have been found that appear to date back to the middle of the fifth millennium BC. The
Ancient Egyptian faience is something completely different from European faience, andshould not be confused with it. European faience is a hard, brightly coloured, tin-glazed pottery first made in Faenze (hence its name) in Italy in late medieval times. It is also known as majolica. Egyptian Faience Egyptian faience (often referred
Scarabs are the commonest of all ancient Egyptian antiquities. They take the form of the scarabeus beetle and are often carved on the underside with texts that can vary from a simple good wish, a personal name and title used as a seal, or religious or historical texts. Scarab Symbolic
The ancient Near East is the fountainhead of modern civilization. It was in the ancient Near East, more than 5000 years ago, that people first learned to live in cities, invented writing and developed the first high civilizations. The Near East Influence The fascinating discoveries of Near Eastern archaeologists over
In ancient Egypt the papyrus plant was the symbol of Lower Egypt, the Delta area, where is grew widely. Nowadays, like much of the ancient Egyptian flora and fauna, it has retreated far to the south of the country and is now only grown in Egypt in special areas to
Shabtis are, after the sacred scarab beetle, the commonest of ancient Egyptian antiquities. Their name means, literally, ‘answerer’. These mummiform figures were buried in the tomb with the dead person and were intended to be able to stand in his place in the Afterworld and carry out any work that