Status Updates From Art Across Time: Prehistory...

In the words of Aristotle: "The deliberative faculty is not present at all in the slave, in the female it is inoperative, in the child undeveloped."

"Egypt itself underwent a series of conquests, first by the assyrians (c. 673-657 B.C.), followed by the persians in 525 B.C., and by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. In 58 B.C., the Romans invaded Egypt and annexed it in 30 B.C. Since the early seventh century, Egypt has been part of the Islamic world.

"just five months after Tutankhamon's tomb was opened, carter's patron died of an infection, which the popular press attributed to the mummy's curse"

"Hatshepsut chose to be represented as a man in many of her statues... wearing a ceremonial headdress and beard"

"Within the rigorously social hierarchy of ancient Egypt, a queen was below a king in rank, a position indicated not only by her slightly smaller size, but by her stance. her left foot does not extend as far forward as her husband's, nor are her arms are rigidly positioned as his... The less imposing, more naturalistic, and less formal portrayal of the queen in comparison with the king is a function of her lower rank

"but the brain was discarded as useless"! .. talking about mummification and canopic jars in the ancient egypt