Scribes In Ancient Egypt: The Book Of The Dead

Ancient societies’ life practices such as Mesopotamia and Egypt are depicted in The Code of Hammurabi translated by Theophile J. Meek and in The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead translated by R. Faulkner. The King of Babylon, Hammurabi himself in 1700 BCE, wrote The Code of Hammurabi containing severe two hundred and eighty two law codes that the whole society was to follow. Similarly to law codes, The Egyptian Book of the Dead was used in the New Kingdom that is around 1550 BCE to around 50 BCE, it also served as a platform way of life emphasizing on the afterlife rather than the present as in The Code of Hammurabi. Both The Code of Hammurabi and The Egyptian Book of the Dead display the consequences of living a just or unjust life in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Although, while in The Code of Hammurabi punishments varied concurring to your social status, unlike in Egypt, where the granting of an afterlife was attainable for all. Ultimately, in both civilizations consequences would arise accordingly on how the masses lived their daily lives, but both The Code of Hammurabi and The Egyptian Book of the Dead provides us with insight on how a each respective society was kept in order.

The seated scribe is a sculpture made in 2500 B.C.E in Saqqara, Egypt fourth dynasty. This piece of artwork can explain a lot about the society it came from which makes it significant. In the following paragraphs I will address; what makes it unique? Who it was found by? The impact this had on our understanding of the piece, and modern interpretations of Egyptian art. First here’s a description:

Every individual experiences the act of death, and most persons experience the death of someone they know of. Whether family, kin, or someone infamous, the living deal with the process of dying. Anthropology seeks to understand the universal process of death ritual and how different cultures deal with death differently. An anthropologist can extract social values of a given culture, past or present, from how death ceremony is practiced. Such values could be regarding political hierarchy or an individual’s status in a society, and about a culture’s spiritual or religious faith. By exploring death ceremony in ancient Egypt, contemporary Hindu death practice in India, and current North American funerary rites, it can be illustrated that

a. Keeping composed records. Egyptians built up numerous written work frameworks. The first was hieroglyphics, it was an arrangement of images or pictures which spoke of items, ideas or sounds. At that point, recorders created hieratic written work, which was a less difficult script for regular use. Composing was utilized to record data. Clerics and copyists would cut writing in

Illness is in no way a new thing, if you had happened to to sick at the time of ancient egyptians there probably was a treatment for it. However in ancient egypt, the medicine that we think of now was not the preferred way in treating diseases. The egyptians had a leg on on the other societies of the ancient world. This mostly relates to their embalming process where they religiously practiced removing and preserving human remains. The ancient egyptians believed that in order for a soul to travel to the afterlife the body must be preserved.Through the embalming process, egyptians had gained great knowledge of anatomy, dissection and preservation. The entire mummification process took multiple skilled prist and roughly 70 days to complete.

They made measurements of the body and other living things and objects. They solved algebra equations, and they did multiplication problems, they used fractions too. There are still papyruses with medicine and math systems in

Music was an important role of the ancient Egyptian lifestyle and is where many musical instruments that are used today developed. It was played in temples for worship, during holidays and social events. Music was also used to make workers more productive because it was found to be more bearable and motivating. This article describes the importance of these instruments by explaining how they originated, the structure of them, and how they are used for worship.

Games in ancient Egypt are very interesting, complicated, and a lot of fun. In the modern day century, games and sports are a big industry. With football and soccer sports are worth millions of dollars and games are great for family fun. The ancient Egyptians had many games much like our modern day games. They have games such as the board game Senet, and games that look like modern sports such as hockey, and with the help of the general population they cherished sports.

Did you know that the Ancient Egyptian civilization started in 3000 B.C.E. which is 5016 years ago! The Ancient Egyptian civilization was one of the most thriving civilizations of its time. One reason it was so successful was because of the Nile River. The Nile River is 4,258 miles long and stretches through the middle of Ancient Egypt. There are many ways that the Nile River benefited Ancient Egypt, three of those ways are through floodland and fertile soil, trade, and transportation.

Scribes: the people who write the important things down. They had to keep track of the taxes and maybe how much the farmer make in the year etc.

Narrator- Four-thousand, six-hundred, and eighty-seven years ago, Ancient Egypt was the civilization. The daily life of a family was not what it would be compared to now. As we step back into the past, first we will join a royal egyptian family, in their daily life. Royal family walks onto the stage- Narrator- As they begin their day the queen is doing her morning rituals, while the child is busy playing with her father.

Compared to the Sumerian Empire, the Egyptians were more civilized and had the time and resources available to focus on the further development of literature. In the book, A History of Writing edited by Ann Marie Christin, Christin confirms, “ ‘writing’ was used in everyday life (correspondence, administrative, legal documents) and in ideological and religious writing on temples, royal monuments, and funerary monuments, as well as in autobiography documents, religious rites, and for magical spells” (46). The Egyptian people incorporated writing into their work. Masonry workers carved artful inscriptions into arches and pillars. Morticians inscripted sacred rites onto coffins. Agricultural workers kept detailed records of flood dates, seed treatment, yields, and profits on scrolls of papyrus. Middle class Egyptians started to make reading and writing the new social standard continually innovating ways to turn any substance into a writing

Egyptians used hieroglyphics to write down mainly religious writings, carving on monuments, and any writing in general. www.timetrips.co.uk says “ Hieroglyphics were for mainly religious writings. These could be about the gods, or about trying to get the soul of a dead person to heaven … “ In other words Egyptians wrote a lot about their gods. According to www.timetrips.co.uk they liked to write poems too! Overall Egyptians used hieroglyphics for many reasons.

The Egyptian Book of the Dead was used primarily from the establishment of the New Kingdom in 1550 BCE to 50 BCE. It consisted of the collection of texts and spells designed to assist the deceased in their journey to the next world. The book of the dead was part of a custom of memorial texts that consisted of the past Coffin Texts and the Pyramid Texts that were decorated on objects. Spells were drained from the past works and other Egyptian history courting to Third Intermediate Period (Budge, 2012:21).

They went through many rough times,which lead to war and deaths. There were about 30 dynasties that