Ancient Egyptian Religion As Seen In Art And Architecture

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the Ancient Egyptian culture was a center of commerce, philosophy, and religion alike. The people had a culture like that of no other group in history; however, its complexity has led to many misconceptions about the Ancient Egyptian populace. The ever-popular archaic art style of a figure in profile surrounded by hieroglyphs has become the world¹s favorite view of the Egyptian. As a result of this ignorance, the cultural aspects of this society are not fully appreciated. One of the greatest little-known truths about the people of this society is that they based almost everything they did around their spiritual beliefs.
In the life of Egyptian people, religion [played] a far more
important part than modern man can imagine. With the peoples

of antiquity, as in Europe in the Middle Ages, belief in gods or in

one god [formed] the focal point of man¹s world-outlook. ...

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than on scientific ones. One of the most important contributions that the Ancient Egyptians made to the future of all art was a canon system that assigned particular proportions to parts of the human anatomy. This development created a more realistic view of the figures of people used in wall murals and pottery. These are merely a few of the aspects for which modern society gives the Ancient Egyptians credit.

Another unique aspect of the Ancient Egyptian culture was the construction of elaborate, and sometimes enormous, works of architecture. One of the main reasons for today¹s knowledge about these edifices is the fact that many of them are still towering over Egypt. This is ...

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