05/09/2021
Colors in ancient Egypt ❤️❤️
The Egyptian artist used colors that contain a lot of multi-grade materials that he extracted from the oxides of natural minerals, and the Egyptian artist was not satisfied with what he was getting from natural materials imported from the Arabs, but they added many industrial colored materials, the most famous of which are "Egyptian Blue and Egyptian Green", which The ancient Egyptians made them from natural materials.
As for the colors:
White: The white color has been known in ancient Egypt since pre-dynastic times. It is one of the most important colors and has great importance for the Egyptians, as it was worn by high priests and used to color the whites of the eyes and clothes and also to lighten other colors, and it could be obtained from gypsum Raw and calcite "calcium carbonate".
Red: It is considered one of the main colors in ancient Egypt. It was the color indicative of victory. It was used in writing on walls, on papyrus, and in the early paragraphs. It was used to color the bodies of men. Red ocher is available from the mineral hematite in the Western Desert.
Yellow: The yellow color was used to denote the sun and gold, as well as to express the color of a woman’s skin. It has several sources that can be obtained from yellow ocher, the covering rocks in the Eastern Desert and the orbanite. “A bag of Orment was found next to the possessions of King Tutankhamun.” .
Blue: It was used in cemeteries to express the blue waters of the Nile. It was also used in the bishops to express the clear sky. Also, the blue color was a sacred color, as it symbolized the sacred truth, which is the color of life and the color of the god of life and reproduction, and it can be obtained. From the "Azurite", the basic copper carbonate.
Green: This color was of great importance to the ancient Egyptians, as it is also a sacred color. It symbolizes eternal nature and was used to color trees and plants, and it symbolized youth and vitality, and it can be obtained from the basic copper carbonate “malachite”.
Black: The ancient Egyptian used it as a basic color in the coloring of wigs and women’s hair. It was also used as eyeliner around the eyes. The Egyptian artist expressed with it the black soil of Egypt, which was named “Kamit” which means black earth, and it can be obtained from carbon, which is The main component of the black color, charcoal was also used as a black color.
