Tombs And Temples

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must have caught the sun light and reflected its rays. It has the distinction
of being the site of the first large stone structure built in the world. The
place where humans began to strive for the impossible, where the imagination
gained the power to transform reality.
Some of the loveliest works of art
ever seen can be found at Saqqara, in the tombs of the nobles. The limestone
walls are delicately incised with myriads of animals, fish, birds, insects,
vegetation and people - hunting, herding and farming. Some of the forms still
retain their original paint, after 4,500 years! The quality of these compositions
demonstrates that the Egyptians had attained, at an early stage, an artistic
culture of a very high order. Cattle Crossing is an etching made from sketches
done at Saqqara. The medium of etching, itself a process of erosion, seems
well suited to capturing the time worn quality of the relief carving.
The
person responsible for the step pyramid, Imhotep, is ...

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Giza was built by slaves but this is not
true. One hundred thousand people worked on it for three months of each year.
This was the time of the Nile’s annual flood which made it impossible to farm
the land and most of the population was unemployed. He provided good food and
clothing for his workers and was kindly remembered in folk tails for many centuries.

There are three pyramids at Giza, each of which once had an adjoining mortuary
temple. Attached to this temple would have been a covered causeway descending
down to a valley temple, near the Nile. The “Great pyramid”6 itself is truly
an astonishing work of engineering skill. For over four thousands years, until
the modern era, it ...

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