To: ElkGroveDan
I hope the DNA study is decisive because a lot of Egyptian figures look like that.
I was an art history student. I thought images of people all looked that way because artists’ representations became so stylized that that they followed a strict formula in representing humans. I read somewhere that the style was forced on Egyptian artists by the priestly class who dictated positively EVERYTHING in the culture. Can someone clarify that. My memory is vague.
11 posted on
05/02/2008 11:13:14 AM PDT by
SMARTY
('At some point you get tired of swatting flies, and you have to go for the manure heap' Gen. LeMay)
To: SMARTY
Their were standards for ‘high’ heiroglyphs that were carved on temples and monuments and religious texts. The heratic form was less so since it was used in everyday communication.
15 posted on
05/02/2008 11:23:26 AM PDT by
Leg Olam
(“If I had to live my life over again, I'd be a plumber.” ~ Albert Einstein)
To: SMARTY
I thought images of people all looked that way because artists’ representations became so stylized that that they followed a strict formula in representing humans.I believe that this is the main competing theory about the appearance of the Pharaoh's family, competing with the theory in this article.
39 posted on
05/02/2008 6:57:42 PM PDT by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(All of this has happened before, and will happen again!)
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