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Eternal Egypt
Scribal equipment typically consists of reed pens contained in a small case and two cups for red and black ink, respectively, or a palette that combines two hollows for the inks and a slot for the pens. The palette from Tutankhamun's collection has four reed pens in their long slot and two hollows for the ink.
From the Archives of Discovery: Watch as Egyptian laborers make mud bricks with the same methods used to build bricks for the pyramids. Learn more about pyramids and brick making in this video.
Videos "Brick Making in Egypt"
(iwen) In ancient Egypt, color was an integral part of the substance and being of everything in life. The color of something was a clue to the substance or heart of the matter. When it was said that one could not know the color of the gods, it meant that they themselves were unknowable, and could never be completely understood. In art, colors were clues to the nature of the beings depicted in the work.
Ancient Egypt: the Mythology - Colors
Egyptian faience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Egyptian faience is a non-clay based ceramic displaying surface vitrification which creates a bright lustre of various blue-green colours. Having not been made from clay it is often not classed as pottery . [ 1 ] It is called "Egyptian faience" to distinguish it from faience , the tin glazed pottery associated with Faenza in northern Italy. [ 2 ] Egyptian faience, both locally produced and exported from Egypt, occurred widely in the ancient world, and is well known from Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean and in northern Europe as far away as Scotland. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ edit ] Introduction From the inception of faience in the archaeological record of Ancient Egypt , the elected colors of the glazes varied within an array of blue-green hues.The first beads were of wood, shell, clay, stone, and bone. Faience beads are a type of ceramic, but with a blue glaze, the first time in human history that clay and other materials were combined and kiln fired to create a totally new material. The long tube-shaped faience beads were made by enclosing a plant stem in the ceramic material. When the clay was fired, the plant stem burned away, leaving the tube hollow for threading. Sometimes the long tubes were cut into short segments, creating a more traditional bead shape.
Ancient Egyptian Faience
