By: Stacey Crooker

The ancient egyptians expressed a lot of what happened in that time period through their pictures. They even wrote with hieroglyphics, which is a form of writing that is pictographs (pictures) as shown below on the walls. A lot of their art involved pictures of people waiting to go to the afterlife and gods who judged them.
 

There are also gods in this picture; Osiris sitting on the right side is one, the jakal-headed god Anubis is on the left, the goddess Ma'at is on the right of the scale, which weighs people against her feather. This scene is called the "Funerary Scene", which shows what occurs after somebody has died. In the upper part of the picture, there are many people sitting down waiting in line to be judged by the panel. There are 14 "judges" that go over all of the deeds in your life before you died. They see if you have been a good or bad person during your life, and then weigh you against the feather of Ma'at, the goddess of truth, to see if you will be accepted in the underworld.

This picture is from the Book of the Dead of the king's scribe Ani, showing a picture of Ani (left) with his small wife, Tutu, behind him. They are there in the temple adoring Osiris and his sister/wife Isis who are enclosed in a shrine. The writing on the wall is framed by the two groups of figures, and it is an address and a hymn to Osiris.

This picture is also a part of the Book of the Dead belonging to the scribe of the oracle Hor. This is showing the weighing of the deceased's heart before the dieties Osiris, Isis and Nephthys. In the middle/right side, two registers show Hor above his wife, adoring 35 mummified figures, each holding a feather to represent Ma'at. Ma'at is the goddess right below the two registers, with a feather in place of her head. In front of her is Hor holding his arms up. A second figure of Hor is lead by the god Anubis to the balance, on the other side of which is Thoth, scribe of the gods, stands with a brush and palette to record the results and anounce them to Osiris. The lion-like creature squatting on the shrine in front is the monster that is waiting to eat any of the hearts that fail the test.

These are glazed tiles from the palaceof King Ramses III at Tell el-Yahudiya in the Delta showing (starting on the left) a bound Libyan, Syrian and Nubian. They are easily recognizable as foreigners because of their non-Egyptian hairstyles and clothes.

This is a scene where a royal scribe named Ipi worships the god Anubis. This picture came from the tomb of Ipi at Sagarra. The inscriptions on the stele include funeral prayers, and the names and titles of the deceased.