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[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0315086085900023 by Gay Robins, Charles C.D Shute ScienceDirect] | [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0315086085900023 by Gay Robins, Charles C.D Shute ScienceDirect] | ||
In ancient Egyptian buildings, such as pyramids and pylons with inclined walls, the inclination was contrived to give a horizontal displacement measured in palms, half-palms or quarter-palms for a drop of one royal cubit of seven palms. The inclination of the edges between adjacent walls was not relevant to the design. Evidence is presented suggesting that in two-dimensional art the obliquity of slanting lines may have been determined by a similar system, but with a drop of six units instead of seven. | In ancient Egyptian buildings, such as pyramids and pylons with inclined walls, the inclination was contrived to give a horizontal displacement measured in palms, half-palms or quarter-palms for a drop of one royal cubit of seven palms. The inclination of the edges between adjacent walls was not relevant to the design. Evidence is presented suggesting that in two-dimensional art the obliquity of slanting lines may have been determined by a similar system, but with a drop of six units instead of seven. | ||
=====Paint like an Egyptian: X-rays reveal creative process behind ancient tomb art===== | |||
[https://www.science.org/content/article/paint-egyptian-xray-egyptian-tomb-art by Tanvi Dutta Gupta 12/7/23 Science] | |||
Every painter has a process, but the painstaking revisions and countless tiny edits are invisible to those who only see the final product. In a study published today in PLOS ONE, researchers used x-rays to reveal how 3000-year-old paintings inside Egypt’s Theban Necropolis unfolded step by step. The findings hint at the creative process used to produce these ancient masterworks. | |||
