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Nefertiti Influence On Akhnaton

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In the past, Egyptian scientists explore the Egyptian civilization and they discovered Egyptian civilization northeastern Africa in the 3rd millennium. Moreover, The people who lived in Egypt civilization their name was The pharos.I choose Egyptian civilization because they have an exciting life, for example, The Egyptians lived in the path of the yearly Nile flood, and they made their homes of mud bricks(Fleming,1992).Also, they think there is a life after the died. In contrast, they have a lot of abuse kings. That makes them stronger to Endure the conditions of life.
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Did you ask yourself what's Akhnaton mean?.Its strange name but it means a ’Beneficial to the sun-disc’.In the past Akhnaton has a different name but, he changed when he started a new religion in Egypt with his queen Nefertiti.At the time when he changed his name, Akhnaton built a new capital, its called el’Amarna,it is between Memphis and Thebes. At its center was a roofless temple to the sun while.Akhnaton was wanted el’Amarna in a new and different style of painting and sculpture.Amarna art was unlike and strange traditional Egyptian art, which shown unreal pictures of people. Actually Nefertiti had a lot of influence on Akhnaton …show more content…

The pharos called their writing (Hieroglyphs).The Egyptian believed the hieroglyphs is magical.However, they used hieroglyphs mostly in temples and tombs.They are written from left to right, the right to left, or top to bottom.In addition. There is a written version of hieroglyphics it's called hieratic.it's always from right to left. The name of hieroglyphic return from the greek and its mean “scared carving”.The Egyptian use a lot of tools to writing for example, consisted of hammers for stone inscriptions and chisel. Also brushes and colors for wood."Many of the writing tell us that Egyptians, like anyone else, told jokes, complained, quarrelled, and sometime behaved badly".(Hart

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