Comparing The Ruins Within Egyptian And Near Eastern Cultures

Culture in the Ruins Within Egyptian and Near Eastern cultures, archaeologists discovered the similarities and differences between the two civilizations through their ancient artifacts and ruins. As with the Near Eastern artifacts, it inspired how Egyptian art and architecture were developed. The Egyptians and Near Easterners created momentous temples and sculptures to commemorate their rulers, but the structures and meanings behind them were different. Both these cultures contained aspects of high authority and high status within what and how temples were built and in what ways their rulers or high authorities were depicted. Through this, archeologists could distinguish how Egyptian and Near Eastern art and architecture led to such great empires

They found this when identifying the two types of seals: flat or cylinder seals representing a story or moment in one's life to display their honor, as the seal could be linked to their family's name. "When elite individuals died, their families frequently buried them with their seals to carry into the afterlife." This gave archaeologists a look into how they could identify whether or not these funerary temples were of people from high class or high authority as, depending on what or how the seal was made, it provided the context of whose tomb it was. They then took after the temple-like structures within Egyptian funerary temples, especially when looking at the Deir el-Bahri in Egypt. This temple was found by archaeologists that then came to be known to be for the female pharaoh Hatshepsut and made in her honor. When archaeologists looked into the temple, they found aspects of things that were given to her for the afterlife. There were things like "a globular offering jar in each hand as she takes part in a ritual in honor of the gods." These were symbols of her communication with the gods before entering the

You can see Near Eastern art through the Gudea of Lagash. This statue was built to remember his power and built in a "constituent for one of the most extensive examples of "the patron's voice" in the ancient world.". The Gudea of Lagash is one of the many statues built for him in temples. Still, this one, in particular, was built to show how "this seated portrait states that Gudea has on his lap a plan of the new temple he erected to Ningirsu, creating that sense of communication between him and the god Ningirsu. This would have perceived Gudea to be of high power within the community, primarily as a king, to show that he had such communication with the god. Also seen in the Egyptian world, they show this through models of Senenmut and Nefrura block statues, showing the connection between the two and their high status in power. Senenmunt was the chancellor of Hasthpuet and her daughter's tutor or possible lover, which depicted the two together most of the