How The Egyptian Tomb Paintings Give Us a Look in The Past

The Egyptians were such a fascinating people that were intelligent musically, economically, and spiritually. This type of art covered the walls to show a ceremonial going on for eternity for the dead. Involving the afterlife after passing away and also about immorality that the spirits go to. Art work was distributed in 2D form which was covered on walls and scrolls made by papyrus using hieroglyphics to create the masterpiece. From these paintings on the walls it has led Egyptologist to new discoverings about how life was for people and what they believed would happen in afterlife.

The purpose for their tomb paintings have to do with their religion, which had to do with the afterlife and the Gods that they believed in. It told stories over how life was before they deceased. One example a painting shows two egyptians going thru a field of wheat with two cows trampling the wheat. Another shows a depiction of a king involved in a ritual, so the lifestyle during the egyptians was a fascinating. Not all of the egyptian painting was purley the lifestyle, and the Gods they worship. Most of the paintings that are seen will have some type of action that will have symbolic meaning to it. In the paintings you will see a figure that is much larger than the other figures. This represents the king, the king is depicted more large than the others due to the fact the king is important. During the egyptian times the king was believed to have god like powers and the larger depiction was to symbolise the ruler's power over the people.

The king that passed wants the people to remember that even in the afterlife the king with god like powers is important. All the depictions in the rulers tomb will depict their journey to the afterlife and before the afterlife. When its time for the ruler to go to the afterlife it shows a god like creature mummifying the deceased. And this was to ensure the resurrection in the future to whomever wins the judgment of the gods. Before there passing the tombs showed the accomplishments of the pharaoh and how the people viewed him as their ruler. The tomb paintings are a connection between the dead and the living.