Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt
What types of accomidation was their in Ancient Egypt?

Hi, I'm doing a project and I need to know what types of accommodation there was in Ancient Egypt = AE. We have to take people on a tour back to AE and we are already staying at Cleopatras Palace and A peasents house could you please tell me one more place to stay!

Thanks

you have nice hatchbsoot temple......you have abou simple palace and temple,,,,,you have elkarnak with its beautiful holly lake

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Ancient Egypt - The Mask of King Tutankhamun

The intact tomb of King Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter in the Valley of Kings. King Tut, the Boy King, would have been relegated to relative obscurity, reigning Ancient Egypt for a mere 10 years, without the discovery of his tomb. The everlasting image of King Tut’s mask has been seen around the world and has come to symbolize the Ancient Egyptian civilization, as iconic as the pyramids themselves.

The mask protected the head of the mummy of Tutankhamun. It presents us with a beautiful, albeit idealized, portrait of the young King. Its purpose was to enable his soul to recognize his mummy and to re-enter it. Protection was assured by a magic formula engraved on the shoulders and the back of the mask. The usual Nemes headdress knotted back at the nape of the neck is a striped blue-green imitating Lapis Lazuli, a semi-precious stone found in Afghanistan. The headdress golden stripes are of Solid Gold. On the forehead of the mask are a royal Uraeus (a rearing cobra) and a vulture's head, symbols of the two patron deities of Lower and Upper Egypt; Wadjet and Nekhbet, both protecting the King, in gold inlaid with semi-precious stones and colored glass. The mask's eyes are made of obsidian and quartz with a touch of red at the corners: the cosmetic lines and the lids are of inlaid Blue Glass. The divine beard, plaited and turned up at the end, is of Cloisonn work (colored glass held in a framework of gold.) The wide necklace collar is formed of rows of Lapis Lazuli, Quartz, Amazonite and colored Glass Beads attached at each shoulder to a gold falcon's head (representing Horus) ornamented with obsidian. All of this intended to protect the King in his journey to the afterlife. This fabulous mask is held at the Egyptian Antiquities Museum in Cairo when not touring the world.

Ancient Egyptians believed their Pharaohs live on if their names are remembered. If that is true then a young boy born circa 3000 years ago may outlive them all.

Natural objects such as seeds, berries, shells, bone and teeth used as adornment have been found in prehistoric sites. Fossilized shells used as beads on a necklace have been excavated from a site in Moravia dated at around 3,000 BC. In later ages gemstones have been used as religious symbols, to display wealth and status and as Good Luck charms and amulets.

More than 4,500 years ago Jade Carving was already long established in China. Sumerian and Egyptian craftsmen were making jewellry set with lapis lazuli, carnelian, turquoise, amethyst and garnet. Agate was particularly popular with the Romans who skillfully used the differently colored layers to make beautiful cameos.

Travellers along trade routes brought many gemstones used in early jewelry. Beautifully colored pebbles in streambeds and on beaches were probably the first gems to attract the human eye and imagination. As civilizations evolved a greater variety of gem minerals and more reliable sources of supply became available through organized mining and trading.

The Egyptians mined turquoise in Sinai and amethyst near Aswan. They imported lapis lazuli from Afghanistan the only source known to the ancient world. These remote mines are perhaps the world's longest operating mines still yielding the finest quality lapis lazuli after more than 6,000 years. The Romans mined agate in Germany and these deposits again formed the basis of an important local industry from medieval times. Idar-Oberstein still has a thriving gem and jewelry trade, working on gemstones imported from all over the world.

The gem gravels of India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar are legendary for the rich variety of their gemstones. They have produced the finest diamonds, sapphires, rubies, and spinels for many centuries. An ancient Sanskrit manuscript records that Indian diamonds were an important source of state revenue over 2,000 years ago.

Great gems from these sources have always exerted a powerful fascination. When the Koh-I-Noor diamond was presented to the Mughal Emperor Babur in 1526, its value was set at one day of the whole world's expenditure. A few of these gems even carry written evidence of an illustrious past. The Shah Diamond is inscribed with the names of the three royal owner including Shah Jahan

Part 1: Secrets from Ancient Egypt