The faces of ancient Egypt

Mainly old Kingdom statues, and assorted mummy cases from the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms. Mainly I've stuck to painted statues meant to be lifelike portraits of the deceased.The first minute is mainly 4th and 5th dynasty tomb statues that are meant ot be realistic portraits of the deceased; later on are some statuettes of servants, followed by mummy masks and cases. As far as I know, none of these are from the Greek or Roman period.

The statue of Rahotep and Nofret is not 'proved to be a fake', neither is the bust of Nefertiti. The only person to claim Rahotep/Nofret was faked was Ivan Van Sertima, on the grounds it had a moustache and was too European looking- but since this is actually common to old Kingdom statues (see others on the vid) this is groundless. When the statue was found, only a very basic grasp of heiroglyphs was available to only a handful of scholars, and there was no way the heiroglyhs on the back could have been written at that time, so it's impossible for it to be a 19th century fake. The Egyptians also reckon they can prove Nefertii was removed illegally from Egypt, which would make the odds of her being an art nouveau fake very unlikely, particularly since the bust has a good resemblence to the other heads of Neferititi which all have a solid provenence.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Afrocentrism
• ancient Egypt
• art
• history
• Egypt

[ledormant]

Those faces are so moving. Afrocentrists never sat that. Strange for people who pretend to be ancient Egyptians.

[EuroCivilization]

@DEM2600

You really need to go back to school. Not merely to improve your grammar, punctuation etc.which is really the ghetto type but also to enable you to marshall your thoughts and use logic to arrive at some point you want to make. But I'm sure you know Egypt like the back of your hand!

[EuroCivilization]

Beautiful Egyptian faces. Perfect nose and mouth, high cheekbones. 

[BashuUp]

Btw the one @ 1:17 is a modern day figure head made for europeons by europeons

[ledormant]

Beautiful faces.

[B7acKLioN]

@1999521 no to end my arguement is for you to search youtube an type black genesis...see who is telling the truth haha..he is a arab an a white guy named bevual an hancock saying the true people of kemet were subsaharan lol....

[ledormant]

@DEM2600 Let me put this your way : ainTshunt idjipShunz weWent BLaQ ! Ah, much betta !

[ledormant]

@DEM2600 You don’t present facts. You only insult me in bad English and vomit lies. You are just a frustrated slave descendant with a white name who never had a history or inventions. You are a shamed of yourself. Great !

[DEM2600]

@ledormant well, they say never argue with a fool. Are you fuckin stupid or something? Nubia ruled all of egypt for like 100 years if not more, scientist say the the oldest Pyrimids discoverd were found in Sudan. Your a clown, just face it loser, the original Egyptions were black. You people even wanna deny the fact that Christ was black, even though there is only one race with hair like wool. I'm done your stupid, read more, learn more.

[ledormant]

@DEM2600 Nubians never built anything in Egypt. The tiny Nubian pyramids were built 2700 years after the huge Egyptian ones, Nubians only copied their masters without equalling them. You couldn’t spell Egyptian properly ! Black jews????? ah ah ah ah ah ah ah !

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You have never invented anything. How could you have created a civilization?