Statue of Isis

Ancient Egyptian culture, throughout its many ups and downs, was consistently fixated around two features of their ethos: their pharaohs and their religion. In actuality these two aspects go hand in hand, as the pharaoh was typically believed to be a living god. These ideals stood the test of time throughout the dynastic Egyptian kingdom’s period of influence, an era spanning from approximately 3000BCE until 30BCE . It was during the later part of this …

…rulers, and the relationship each has with the other. Luckily, this habitual practice of using art as the medium to display these multifaceted relationships has created works such as Statue of Isis and countless others for the modern day individual to recount. Furthermore, the recounting of such works has become almost flawless due to the specific details the Egyptians left behind with their art, through the use of the written word and the symbolized idea.