Ancient egypt jewelry

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• After more than 100 thousand years
• first simple jewelry pieces are made out from bone, seashells and animal skin appeared deep.
• Africa, and over 40 thousand years after our ancestors stepped outside
• African continent and started conquering the world
• In Egypt managed to become one of the most dominant civilization of our ancient history.

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• Such as silver and semi-precious stone lapis lazuli which was used as one of the most favorite materials for production of famous Egyptian Scarab ornament).
• Moment that defined the start of Egypt rise in jewelry production was discovery of the gold and the ways to easily
• They collected it from available riverbeds some 5 thousand years ago.
• This enabled Egyptians to collect vast quantities of gold which was viewed as perfect material for creation
• Elaborate jewelry designs - soft and easy to work with. Starting with Predynastic Egypt, golden jewelry quickly became symbol of status, power and religion, which enabled it
• To become lifetime focus of many royal and noble families, who demanded creation of more and more elaborate jewelry designs as time went by
• In addition to gold and the materials that could be commonly found in Egypt, many other materials were imported from surrounding territories

Ancient Egypt Jewelery is awsome

Clothing of Men

• From about 2130 BC during the Old Kingdom, garments were simple.
• [3] The men wore wrap around skirts known as the Shendyt, which were belted at the waist, sometimes pleated or gathered in the front.
• [3] During this time, men's skirts were short as the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, 1600 B.C., came, the skirt was worn longer.
• [3] Then, around 1420 BC, there was a light tunic or blouse with sleeves, as well as a pleated petticoat

Clothing of women

• During the Old, Middle and New Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian women often wore simple sheath dresses called kalasiris it was made of haïk, a very fine muslin. In contrast to dresses shown in art, such linen garments tend to be baggy, and would conceal rather than reveal the body.[8]
• [4] Women's clothing in ancient Egypt was more conservative than men's clothing.
• [2][5] The dresses were held up by one or two straps and were worn down to the ankle, while the upper edge could be worn above or below the breasts.
• [2] The length of the dress denoted the social class of the wearer [6] Beading or feathers were also used as an embellishment on the dress.
• [7] Over the dress, women had a choice of wearing shawls, capes, or robes the shawl was a piece of cloth around 4 feet wide by 13 or 14 feet long.
• [2] This was mostly worn pleated as well.[2] Female clothes only changed slightly through the millennia.
• Draped clothing (with many varieties of drapery) sometimes gave the impression of completely different clothing.
• Until the mid-Eighteenth Dynasty women wore a tight-fitting sheath dress, a simple garment that falls from just below the breasts to just above the ankles, being held up by two shoulder straps.
• On statues the straps cover the breasts, but in painting and relief the single breast depicted in profile is exposed.
• The dress hugs the body with no slack. Also when women are shown in movement, sitting or kneeling, the dress still clings to the outline of the body as if elasticated.

Clothing children of

• A popular hairstyle among the children was the side-lock on the right side of the head.[9] When they grew up, they wore the same styles as their parents.
• Children wore no clothing until 6 years old.[9] Once they turned six years old they were allowed to wear clothing to protect them from the dry heat.
• [9] Even though children usually wore no clothing, they wore jewelry such as anklets, bracelets, collars, and hair accessories.