Ancient Knowledge Clip

Here is my Documentary video that I did for my course at college.
Here is the script that I did to go with.

Hi there and welcome to Ancient Knowledge. My name is Robert Burns and today I’m going to tell you about Egyptian art and relics from about 5,000 years ago.

Shabtis

Shabtis are small figurines that are normally made out of wood, stone and faience and often in the form of a mummy. They would be placed in the deceased tomb to do any work that their master or mistress may want them to do in the Afterlife.

The Egyptian tend to inscribe many of their Shabtis with the title and name of the owner, but other Shabtis were also inscribed with the ‘shabti formula’.

In the Ramesside Period, that’s when the Egyptian were making shabti boxes because of an increase in demand.

There was a spell in the Book of the Dead – Chapter 6

i.Swbty ipn
ir ip.tw N r irt kAt nbt irrt im m Xrt-ntr
ist Hw n.f sdbw im
r s r Xrt.f
ip.tw r.k r nw nb ir.tw im.f
r srwd sxt r smHt wdbw
r Xnt sa r imnt iAbt
iry.i mk wi kA.k

O shabti figure(s)
If N is called up to do any work that is done there in the underworld
Then the checkmarks (on the work list) are struck for him there
As for a man for his (work service) duty
Be counted yourself at any time that might be done
To cultivate the marsh, to irrigate the riverbank fields
To ferry sand to west or east
�I am doing it � see, I am here�, you are to say

Egyptian Art

Egyptian art is well known all across the world for being in tombs, statues and books. The colours that they had back then were blue, gold, black, green, white and yellow. Since gold was the blood of the god, most pharaohs would have their sarcophagus painted or crafted in gold.

The deceased would paint these in their tomb, what they did in life and would like to carry on in the Afterlife. But due to the dry climate, it has destroyed most of the paintings and hieroglyphics in tombs.

Sarcophagus

Now to the Sarcophagus, like I said before, Pharaohs would paint their sarcophagus in gold because it was the blood of the gods. The Sarcophagus would be made out of wood and if you notice that on either side of the sarcophagus, they would have eyes on the shoulders, so the deceased could see where he or she was going.

Sometimes a Pharaoh could have more then one Sarcophagus, like Tutankhamun.

Like the Shabtis, the sarcophagus would also have the person’s name, and religious representations covering it.

But on the inside, they would have funerary spells or help them in the afterlife.

I hope this was educational for you, from me, until next time.  Abysinia.