In the first place, personal adornments were worn in life by men as well as women, also the god had the jewellery that the temple magazines held impressive quantities of jewels.
In life it might be worn as a sign of rank or office to be amuletic and protective or to be merely decorative.
The beginnings of Egyptian jewellery-making can be traced four thousands years before the Birth of Christ.
The Egyptian funerary beliefs required that the mummified body be adorned with the jewellery . So they used the jewellery as amulets to protect them and to help him on the journey though the underworld. Beside that, it was a symbol of rich and as a gift from the king to his retinues and the presentations to the king by courtiers took place on royal occasions such as the celebration of the new year.
Language: Aspects of writing | Linguistic Features | Hieroglyphs etc.Gods
Gods: Isis | Ra | Set | Osiris | Qebhsennef | Maat
Pyramids: Building stones | Egypt Land of the pyramids | Canstruction of Pyramids | Huni's Pyramid | Zoser's step Pyramid | Sneferu's Pyramid | The solar Boat | The grest pyeamid of cheops | Chephren's pyramid | Senusert I's pyramid | Sphinx
Paint: Introduction | Subjects of paint scenes
sports: Introduction | Chariots-training horses | Running | Combating sports | Aquatic sports | Competition | Games and toys | Acrobtics
jewellery: Introduction | Gold | Silver | The precious & semi-precious Stones | The substitutes of precious stones | Same kinds of jewellery | Discoveries of jewellery
Sculpture: Introduction | Old kingdom statues | Middle kingdom statues | New kingdom statues