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[https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ancient-egypt-beauty-ritual-artsy by Julia Wolkoff 3/3/20 CNN] | [https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ancient-egypt-beauty-ritual-artsy by Julia Wolkoff 3/3/20 CNN] | ||
The mysteries of the ancient Egyptians are vast, but their beauty tricks are no secret. Makeup might seem like a modern phenomenon – one that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry – but cosmetics were equally important to daily life in the ancient world. From the earliest era of the Egyptian empire, men and women from all social classes liberally applied eyeliner, eyeshadow, lipstick and rouge. | The mysteries of the ancient Egyptians are vast, but their beauty tricks are no secret. Makeup might seem like a modern phenomenon – one that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry – but cosmetics were equally important to daily life in the ancient world. From the earliest era of the Egyptian empire, men and women from all social classes liberally applied eyeliner, eyeshadow, lipstick and rouge. | ||
=====Unraveling the mysteries of ancient Egypt’s spellbinding mummy portraits===== | |||
[https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/egyptian-mummy-portraits by Alexxa Gotthardt 17/4/19 CNN] | |||
While ancient Egyptian mummy portraits have long been objects of curiosity, only a minimal amount of scholarship exists about them. Many questions have lingered since they were uncovered by archeologists around the Egyptian city of Fayum in the late 1800s. | |||
=====Egyptian Faience: Technology and Production===== | |||
[https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/egyptian-faience-technology-and-production by Carolyn Riccardelli 1/12/17 THE MET] | |||
In ancient Egypt, objects created with faience were considered magical, filled with the undying shimmer of the sun, and imbued with the powers of rebirth. For Egyptians, the sculptures, vessels, jewelry, and ritual objects made of faience glimmered with the brilliance of eternity. While faience is made of common materials—quartz, alkaline salts, lime, and mineral-based colorants—it maintained important status among precious stones and metals. | |||
=====Ancient Egyptian race controversy===== | |||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy by WIKIPEDIA] | |||
Some scholars argued that ancient Egyptian culture was influenced by other Afroasiatic-speaking populations in North Africa, the Horn of Africa, or the Middle East, while others pointed to influences from various Nubian groups or populations in Europe. In more recent times, some writers continued to challenge the mainstream view, some focusing on questioning the race of specific notable individuals, such as the king represented in the Great Sphinx of Giza, the native Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, the Egyptian queen Tiye, and the Greek Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra VII. | |||
=====Archaeologists Armed With Analyzer Change Paradigm of Ancient Egyptian Art===== | |||
[https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-07-12/ty-article/archaeologists-armed-with-analyzer-change-paradigm-of-ancient-egyptian-art/00000189-497b-de83-adc9-cffb3a720000 by Ruth Schuster 12/7/23 HAARETZ] | |||
"No, no, no. His arm is in the wrong place," the master of artwork in a tomb in the Theban Necropolis about 3,300 years ago rebuked some miserable underling. | |||
=====Soot removal from ancient Egyptian complex painted surfaces using a double network gel: empirical tests on the ceiling of the sanctuary of Osiris in the temple of Seti I—Abydos===== | |||
[https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-020-00473-1 by Ehab Al-Emam 4/1/211 npj] | |||
In this study, we evaluated the ease of removal of soot layers from ancient wall paintings by employing double network gels as a controllable and safe cleaning method. The ceiling of the temple of Seti I (Abydos, Egypt) is covered with thick layers of soot; this is especially the case in the sanctuary of Osiris. These layers may have been accumulated during the occupation of the temple by Christians, fleeing the Romans in the first centuries A.D. | |||
=====Butterflies of Ancient Egypt===== | |||
[https://bioone.org/journals/the-journal-of-the-lepidopterists-society/volume-69/issue-4/lepi.69i4.a2/Butterflies-of-Ancient-Egypt/10.18473/lepi.69i4.a2.full by Vazrick Nazari, Linda Evans 1/12/15 Bio One DIGITAL LIBRARY] | |||
A review of butterflies depicted in ancient Egyptian tomb scenes and other artifacts dating from the predynastic period (c. 3000 BCE) until the end of the pharaonic era (c. 100 BCE) reveals a wide spectrum of stylistic changes over time. A cladistic analysis shows relative consistency of style during the Old Kingdom period, copying of old styles during the Middle Kingdom period, and a deviation from tradition during the New Kingdom period. The utility of a cladistic approach in assigning dates and localities to ancient Egyptian artifacts with unknown origins is demonstrated. We discuss lepidopteran symbolism in ancient Egypt, and investigate how some of these depictions may highlight historical shifts in species ranges since pharaonic times. | |||
=====Ancient Egypt===== | |||
[https://www.theartnewspaper.com/keywords/ancient-egypt by THE ART NEWSPAPER] | |||
The work, taken from the tomb of a vizier called Khentika, features a motif that is extremely rare in Ancient Egyptian art | |||
