...great queens in Ethiopia. Tiye: Nubian Queen of Egypt (Ancient Egypt) (1415-1340 B.C.) Queen Tiye is regarded as one of the most influential Queens ever to rule Kemet. A princess of Nubian birth, she married the Kemetan King Amenhotep III who ruled during the New Kingdom Dynasties around 1391BC. Queen Tiye held the title of "Great Royal Wife" and acted upon it following the end of her husband's reign. It was Tiye who held sway over Kemet during the reign of her three sons Amenhotep IV (Akhenaton), Smenkhare, and the famous child king Tut-ankh-amen. For nearly half of a century, Tiye governed Kemet, regulated her trade, and protected her borders. During this time, she was believed to be the standard of beauty in the ancient world. Nefertiti: Queen to a Sacred Mission Nefertiti was one of the most mysterious and powerful women in ancient Egypt. Nefertiti, whose name means “the beautiful one has come,” was an Egyptian queen renowned for her beauty. Nefertiti ruled alongside her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten, during the 18th dynasty (1550-1292 BC). She is best known for her painted sandstone bust, which became a global icon of feminine beauty and power. She was perhaps one of the most powerful women to have ever ruled. Her husband went to great lengths to display her as an equal counterpart. During her reign as queen, Egypt went about many radical religious changes. As queen, she took on powerful roles and showed herself in ways only Egyptian kings did. Nefertiti was depicted nearly...
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...was born in the 15th century B.C. She was the daughter of Thutmose I and Aahmes. Hatshepsut was married to Thutmose II, her half-brother. Upon Thutmose II death Thutmose III, the son of Thutmose II and his royal concubine, was too young to become pharaoh. Hatshepsut who was his step mother became pharaoh instead. Thutmose III envied Queen Hatshepsut and was eager to become the Pharaoh. Because of the dislike Thutmose III tried to erase any trace of the female Pharaoh that dressed as a male. The mystery surrounding the death of Queen Hatshepsut heightens when her remains disappeared for KV20. It is suggest that in the Third Intermediate Period, during the 21st or 22nd Dynasties, the mummy of Hatshepsut was relocated to KV60, which possibly was cut in the 18th Dynasty but never used, this tomb was incomplete and was not decorated. It is speculated that the tomb was be built for someone else. According to research it appears that the mummy of Hatshepsut was switch to the coffin of her wet nurse for security reason and as a sign of respect. After researching one would think that the hatred from Thutmose III played into the mysterious disappearance of the Pharaoh. I speculated that she was murdered. There were no signs of the Pharaoh until 1960s when translations of hieroglyphs and other discoveries brought clarity to the missing information in historical records. The mystery of the Queen mummy started to unfold in April 2007 in the tombs of Deir el-Bahril. Dr. Zahi Hawasaa...
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...Artistic style of Amarna Art in ancient Egypt usually contained youthful faces and perfectly sculpted bodies in a number of different poses that portrayed an ideal timeless and ageless image, and it remained that way for about 1500 years, until Akhenaton. Akhenaton’s art was able to bend and stretch the old framework so that it met the new demands of religion and politics, during the early years of the new kingdom. The depiction of Amenhotep III were depicted as portly, which was significantly different from the old fashion in which kings had been portrayed as slim, trim, youthful, and idealized. In Amenhotep IV statue depicted him with an elongated head is made taller with a high composite crown. The head and upper torso are interplay of oblique line, with diagonal fold of the nemes head cloth continuing into the facial features. Slit eyes with sharply projecting upper lids angle inward toward the nose. The distortions of each body part expressed a fundamental and deliberate change in the idea of how the body was constructed. The standards of the old kingdom divided the figure into 18 equal units of height. Under Amenhotep IV two more units were added to increase the height of the upper body The statues do remain traditional in the way they have crossed arms holding the crook and flail suggest association with Osiris. The statue of Nefertiti had pronounced breast and full hips, to show the fertility of nature. The Karnak reliefs were quite striking, with depictions...
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...Assignment # 1 How did Tutankhamen die? Peter newman Dr. Norman Flowers Humanities 111 9th January 2012 Who was Tutankhamen? Before going any further we have to find out who was Tutankhamen. Tutankhamen (1346-1328), He was born at Akhetaten which was the capital city of Egypt. Tutankhamen was a pharaoh who produced little in his life and he did not increase Egypt’s borders or enjoy triumphant victories like the many pharaohs before him. However, he is the most recognized and probably the most famous pharaoh in the history of Egypt. He is so famous, because of the discovery of his tomb and his elaborate treasure. “Tutankhamen, named Tutankhamen early his life, was the 12th pharaoh of the eighteen dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from 1334-1323BC and lived ca. 1334-1323 BC, during the period knows as the new kingdom.” (www.crystalinks.com) His original name, Tutankhamen, meant “living image of Aten” while Tutankhamen meant “living image of Amum”. In historical terms, Tutankhamen is of only moderate significance, primarily as a figure managing the beginning of the transition from the heretical Atenism of his predecessor Akhenaten back to the familiar Egyptian region. (Www.Site-ology.com/Egypt/kt.htm). The most famous of all the kings found in the Valley of the Kings was Tutankhamen. During his tenth year ruling, Egypt was at war with Hittites. During this confrontation king Tutankhamen suddenly die. He died in the mid- January...
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...capital. * Kings of Egypt * “Ruler of the Two Lands” * wore two crowns – symbolizing the unification of the country * There were at least 30 dynasties in Egypt’s history * Scholars divided the early history of Egypt according to the three periods when strong dynasties united the country * Old Kingdom (2686 – 2150 B.C.E.) * Middle Kingdom (2040 – 1786 B.C.E.) * New Kingdom (1570 – 1090 B.C.E.) Old Kingdom * 2649 B.C.E. * Old Kingdom was inaugurated under the rulers of the third dynasty * Egypt first began to project its power abroad, with expeditions during the reign of Shefru (2575 – 2551 B.C.E.) to Nubia to collect raw materials and campaigns into Libya by the sixth dynasty pharaohs (2323 – 2150 B.C.E.) * 2246 – 2152 B.C.E. * During the long reign of Pepi II, central authority began to dissolve...
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...Hatshepsut was a powerful women pharaoh in Ancient Egyptian time period . Hatshepsut was born in the year, 1508 BC and died in the year, 1458 BC. In her childhood her siblings died while in a young age. Due to that, there was no son to take over the throne. In the royal tradition, Hatshepsut married his step brother in order to keep the bloodline pure. A short time after she got married to his husband, he died. Now that there is no leader, who is going to rule Egypt now? The only male in the family was a young boy, Hatshepsut's nephew. The problem was he was still a baby, so Hatshepsut was now a regent. Hatshepsut was powerful and also a brilliant leader. While being a regent, few years later she became a pharaoh. While ruling Egypt she...
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...My partner for NHD told me about King Tutankhamun and how his tomb was discovered. I learned that for a long time, people thought there was not much left to find in the Valley of the Kings, but Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon believed that they could still find the tomb of King Tutankhamun, so they started to search. We both thought it was a very interesting topic, so we decided that it would be a great topic to do for our NHD project. When we first started working on the project we started looking for secondary sources and images of artifacts found in King Tutankhamun’s tomb. After that we searched for primary sources such as newspaper articles, journals, diaries, and even books written by Howard Carter. We were not able to find any of the...
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...Hatshepsut was" the queen who would be king." She had gradually changed her characteristics from female to male as her royal status had changed. The change of her characteristics allowed her people to accept her as pharaoh, since the pharaoh was the god Horus in the human form of a man. Therefore she had depicted herself as a man and followed the traditional regalia of a pharaoh to legitimise her claim to the throne. Hatshepsut's first tile was "Queen Consort". As a queen she was depicted in images as feminine and delicate. The Diorite statue of Hatshepsut displays her as feminine, due to the soft facial features, breasts, slender waist and a tight fitting dress. Also Queen Hatshepsut wore the vulture crown of the goddess Nekhbet, since...
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...Breaking all the traditional rules, Hatshepsut the first lady Pharaoh, removes her son to become the ruler of Egypt. For 20 years, this fake Pharaoh ruled and Egypt prospered. During her rule she fought many courageous battles, and entered into the first trade alliance. With this aforementioned achievement Hatshepsut extends Egyptian trade. Hatshepsut reign started in 1478 B.C.. She was the longest reigning female Pharaoh of her time. Hatshepsut was married to her half brother ,Thutmose II, until 1479 when he passed away. She served as regine for her son then soon after took title as Pharaoh, now beginning her rule over Egypt. She ruled tell her sudden death, when she died her son Thutmose III took back over and tried to remove her from history...
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...Pyramids have had a great impact in society, during a time when Egypt was one of the richest and most powerful civilizations in the world, the pyramids were some of the most magnificent man-made structures in history. Since the early “2630 B.C” (History), pyramids have shown the importance that the pharaoh, or king played in ancient Egyptian society. Being built with more than “5 million limestone blocks” (History) that had to be cut out and assembled by nearly 20,000 men. The ancient Egyptians built pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs and their queens. From the beginning, Santiago is determined to fulfill his personal legend by traveling to the Pyramids where his treasure is found. Why is that Paulo Coelho decided that the treasure should be found in the pyramids of Egypt? We can only make predictions, and we can assume that he did such thing because of the marvoules wonders the...
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...The first female pharaoh of Egypt, Hatshepsut, one of the best pharaohs to ever live in Egypt. After Thutmose’s death, his son Thutmose III (by a minor wife) was named their heir. Since the boy was so young, Hatshepsut ruled with him. But as she was ruling with him she declared herself pharaoh. She stated that the reason she claimed the throne was because the god Amen-Ra said she was to be pharaoh. While taking charge of the nation, she dressed not as a woman, but as a man. As pharaoh, Hatshepsut extended Egyptian trade and oversaw ambitious building projects, such as the temple of Deir-el Bahri. But she also fought to defend her legitimacy as pharaoh. She ordered to be drawn as a male pharaoh, with a beard and large muscles. She was very...
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...The remaining parts of the Protodynastic model are phenomenally shifted in style, running from an inconspicuous rendering of the human structure in ivory carvings to inflexible formalization in stone figures. As respects to Design, the Early Dynastic period saw the advancement of a great type of tomb. Egyptian funerary statues, which ought to for this very reason dependably been seen all in all. To focus on the lifelikeness of the face alone, as it is so regularly done, intends to miss their hugeness, their incomprehensible, outsider character. The rulers were divine. The natural and the extraordinary domain interpenetrated in the individual of the ruler in a manner that the upkeep of request in the public eye by the lord had divine backing, and that that on the other hand he partook in the obligation regarding astronomical request and the recharging of life. Heb-Sed Celebration where the lord goes through custom passing and will be renewed. Egypt was confronted with need of making a fairly primitive tribal belief good with an extensive and progressively complex state, during a period when religious hypothesis had most likely as of now achieved awesome otherworldly profundity. There still exist three monstrous structures which check the move from Zoser's pyramid to the best and absolute best cases, the pyramids worked by Cheops, Chephren and Mycernius at Giza. Change mirrors a movement in religious accentuation and custom technique, its exact criticalness is past review. It compromisingly...
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...Art History Paper MENIL COLLECTION & MFA-H This paper compares and contrast Virgin and Child. Northern France, 2nd quarter of the 14th century A.D., wood, (1) and Ennatum, Prince of Lagash, 2450 B.C., Sumeria (Sourthern Iraq) , composite materials (alabaster, lapis lazuli, mother of pearl). (2) Both works are from the Menil Collection in Houston. The second set of works this paper compares and contrasts is the Head of Poseidon, 227 - 221 B.C., bronze,(3) and The Pharaoh Ramesses II., 1279 -1212 B.C., granodiorite (4) at the Museum of Fine Art - Houston. The Virgin and Child is around 3 feet tall; she is wearing a gown that drapes around her and covers her head like a veil. The gown has the look of gathering and draping over her body, and her abdomen bulges out slightly from under it. Her face has a slight smile, her eyes are uneven but gentle, and she is missing her right hand. She is holding a child with her left arm cradling the bottom of the child and her left hand comes from under and over the front of the child. She holds him on her left side almost at shoulder level. The child is missing his head and left hand , his right hand is held up towards the virgin's face with two of the child's fingers pointed up . The Ennatum, Prince of Lagash is around one foot tall. The work is a light sand colored statue of a small man with no hair standing with his blue eyes open; his one eyebrow comes over both eyes and merges in the center, and he has a very subtle smile on his face...
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...Thutmose III also known as the greatest and most powerful Warrior Pharaoh and Warrior King began his fifty-three year, ten month and twenty six day reign in a co-regency with step-mother Hatshepsut during the New Kingdom 18th dynasty. Thutmose carried out seventeen successful military campaigns over his ruling and was the most successful and tactical military strategist through his implementation of surprise attacks, belief of the Gods supporting him, tributes and oaths, the sharing of booty and the building of a strong navy and army. Dubbed with the title of “The Egyptian Napoleon” shown in the source The Great Commanders Of The Egyptian World, Thutmose demonstrated the ability to command the Ancient Egyptian world and dominate surrounding cities and countries. Thutose was an incredibly skilled warrior whose name was associated with the status of hero long after his ruling in Egypt. Thutmose III came from a dynasty of great and powerful military strategists which laid the underpinning for him to be a powerful “Warrior Pharaoh”. Thutmose III built on the foundations his grandfather Thutmose I laid out after obtaining his commencing his reign in early childhood. At the start of Thutmose III’s sovereignty, where Hatshepsut took full control and Egyptians experienced stability, peace and prosperity. The Egyptian army was on standby, fully equipped and ready to go when called for Thutmose’s first expedition in to Nubia and Asia at age 11. From this time the reign was a complete...
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...Hatshepsut was an interesting Egyptian pharaoh, and was the first female ruler of Egypt. Instead of war she encouraged trade with other land while exploring. She was the daughter of pharaoh Thutmose l, and the queen Ahmose, from 1508 B.C. to around 1458 B.C. The name Hatshepsut means foremost of noble ladies. In this essay I will explain who Hatshepsut was, how she became pharaoh, and who her family was. Born in Egypt in 1508 B.C., with a sister named Akhbetneferu, who Hatshepsut probably didn’t know too well, because Akhbetneferu died in infancy. Hatshepsut was also supposed to have had four half-brothers due to her father’s second marriage to Mutnofret, two of them also died at a young age. But one of the remaining two was Thutmose ll who would who later marry Hatshepsut. It is claimed that as a child, out of her siblings, Hatshepsut was the one her father liked the most. Supposedly the temple of Karak also favored her. This resulted in her being named by her father as next in line for the throne as queen. At age of twelve Hatshepsut and Thutmose ll were married. They were already married when Hatshepsut’s father died, which lead to Thutmose taking the throne and Hatshepsut being promoted to queen ruler alongside him. But being stuck at queen was to be short lived, sadly for Hatshepsut Thutmose died, leaving her a widow. Before Thutmose passed away he had a son named Thutmose lll who was going to be the next pharaoh, and was Hatshepsut’s nephew. She thought he was...
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