Reply To: Egypt and Mesopotamia

[tmbergan]

Egyptians were similar to Mesopotamians in some of their structures as they both made their rulers massive in comparison to the commoners (ex. Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel, Stele of Naram-Sin). The larger pharaohs essentially placed them on a similar level of authority as their deities. On the page with the Temple of Ramses, it even mentions that Ramses is deified and placed up there with the gods Amun, Ra-Horakhty, and Ptah. A lot of pieces portray the pharaohs adorned in a headdress that has references toward different gods — the Head of Senusret III shows a cobra’s head on his headdress, and the Funerary Mask of King Tutankhamun has a cobra and a vulture, which are said to represent the goddesses Wadjet and Nekhbet, respectively. The relations between Egyptians and their deities is heavily shown through all their artwork even through death as they had scrolls instructing them through their final judgement in the afterlife.