Investigations of Ancient Egyptians Worldview and how it Relates to Their Architecture and Painting

Document Type : Research Paper

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Ancient Egypt is one of the first large human civilizations from which lots of archaeological relics and paintings have remained. The architectural designs of the ancient Egyptian have several special features. The most highlighted ones are their tombs and temples which have huge dimensions and made from durable materials, while their ordinary and royal houses which made in mud and brick which nothing has been remained from them now. In addition, their tombs and temples are located far from their city and the Nile River. This process can be seen in all historical periods of ancient Egyptian architecture.
The paper’s goal is to find the relationship between the architecture of ancient Egyptian and the worldview of the people of this land. In this qualitative study, first of all, we gathered information on the concepts of time, death and religion in ancient Egypt with the help of library research to understand the worldview of the people of this land. Then, with the help of these data and studying their architectures and paintings, we analyzed the relationship between the architecture of ancient Egyptian and the worldview of the people of this land. Our findings showed that paintings of ancient Egypt and its architectures reflected the worldview of the people of this land, which contains their materialistic vision of this world and the world of after life and also Excellence and immortality of the after life’s world than this world.

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