HUAS93206 - The Art of Death in Ancient Egypt

Course Description

The heritage of ancient Egypt has left the modern world with the impression of a culture obsessed with death. The Egyptian relationship with death was neither entirely pervasive nor was it static; as in any society, ideas evolved over time as did their manifestation in art, sculpture, and architecture. This course surveys the long history of burial practices including royal and private tombs, mummification, and the numerous funerary texts associated with ancient Egyptian attitudes toward death. Ancient Egyptian religious ideas would later permeate the Roman Empire and her “mystery cults,” including the nascent religion of Christianity.

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