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Art of Africa: Egypt

Step Pyramid, viewed from the south, Stepped Pyramid complex, Saqqara, Egypt (photo: Dr. Amy Calvert)

Ancient Egyptian religious life and afterlife

Abu Mena — The church, baptistry, basilicas, public buildings, streets, monasteries, houses and workshops in this early Christian holy city were built over the tomb of the martyr Menas of Alexandria, who died in 296 C.E

Abu Mena

by UNESCO

Beautiful glass was popular from ancient Egypt into the Coptic period

Glass dish, Coptic

by The British Museum

coptic egypt grid — In the course of the fourth and fifth centuries C.E., Christians transformed the architectural landscape of pharaonic Egypt by building monumental churches, martyrs’ shrines, and monasteries

Byzantine Egypt and the Coptic period, an ...

by The British Museum

silk coptic grid — By the seventh and eighth centuries in Egypt, patterns on the highest-quality silk panels had become extremely sophisticated and complex

Coptic silk panel

by The British Museum

Egypt — […]

Ancient Egypt

by Dr. Peri Klemm