Art History for Kids: Egypt
We could talk for days about Egyptian Art. Their Pyramids, temples, paintings, sculptures, and mortuary art are so vast, that the most important museums in the world have hundreds of pieces on display. Egypt civilization lasted more than 2,000 years! Can you imagine how different life was 2,000 years ago? did the have computers?, video games?, TV? smartphones? electricity? They couldn’t even print paper, or have running water! They didn’t have factories, cars, that was a completely different world.
For the Egyptians on Tutankamon’s time, it was also a different world from the one when the first kingdom started 2,000 years before. Lets make a first approach to this amazing civilization!