Video Responses

Cairo Museum :

I chose this video because of my fascination with Egypt , which I hope to visit someday.

This museum contain 150,000 artifacts, 80,000 of them are hidden in the basement which came from excavations in Egypt . Some have come from hundreds of years ago, unopened. There is a royal mummy room with some of the most famous rulers of Egypt , each telling a story. In 1875 Adel Rosseu, looking for his missing goat, stumbled upon a cache of royal treasures, he decided to use these items to get rich. He was eventually arrested and was tortured until he gave up the location of the cache which contained 40 mummies, and many royal artifacts. I found it interesting to know how these artifacts were discovered.

A World Inscribed

I chose this video because I thought it would be about the history of manuscript. I found it fascinating that each book was written by hand which was in fact a very slow process, many of which were in poor condition. Scribes were important to pass on the knowledge of our history. The books that were made included a very long process including making the book itself. Book production became a major business during this time. How to books, prayer books, entertainment books, romance novels, etc. became more popular. Illuminators were used to draw illustrations within the books, they used notes left by the scribes to know what we to be created.

The Measure of all things: Greek art and the Human figure

I chose this video because Greece is another country which fascinates me. The sculptures that can be seen here are breathe taking. Almost all of them look so realistic, showing every detail on the human, it is amazing. The Greeks inspired many 20^th century artists. The style of realism became increasingly more popular by showing details of a more “individual” person, the discovery of an inner life of the sculpture. Another useful discovery was the use of movement within sculptures which gave the impression that the sculpture was moving, which was revolutionary during this time.