Unconventional views of animals in ancient Egypt | ||||
| Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality | ||||
| Article 26, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2014, Page 1-16 PDF (687.81 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jaauth.2014.57673 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Tamer Fahim | ||||
| Tourism Guidance Department, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Fayoum University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The paper aim to spot light on these unusual scenes of animals in tombs and temples, ostracas. The paper presents a review of usual scenes of animals to distinguish them from the unusual ones through a great number of samples. The paper concluded that the relation between ancient Egyptian people and animals was not usual because they raised the pose of animals to be equal to humankinds. Also through this paper the author reviews some unusual scenes for animals which did human activities such as music playing, servants and keepers or guardians: beside some rare animal such as Syrian bears and bats. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Animals; landscapes; tombs; births; ostraca | ||||
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