Pottery making technique in ancient Egypt (3100-1085 B.C.)

Abstract

The research deals with the pottery-making technique is considered to be one of the major and important references for human beings in the ancient ages and one of its archeological belongings, and through that, we could realize the lifestyle of ancient Egyptian human beings. It could be said that the in early beginnings of ancient Egyptian human beings in the Neolithic Age, most of the basic materials that were used were made of stone but, they faced hard times with their weights, trimming, and processing. The ancient Egyptian tried to invent a method in making his tools with no obstacles along with using the stone, so they worked on discovering clay made pottery thanks to the presence of the Nile and its annual floods that was rich with a thing that was used by the pottery makers in their business.

            The research sheds the light on the workshops in Egypt where the crockery was made,the important raw materials in pottery making, and  the stages of formation and analysis of the decorations painted on the crockery. This paved the way about discovering of the artistic beauty of Egyptian pottery maker in predynastic and historical ages in ancient Egypt, so it  gave us the primal description about pottery making  for the dynasties that witnessed the foundation of agriculture villages, and the complex geometry painted on crockery during the ancient Egyptian dynasties and the resulting appearance of religious, political and social systems and the stabilization of human beings in the ancient Egyptian community.