Scenes of Women’s Body Language when Accompanying their Husbands at Private Tombs in Ancient Egypt

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1 Assistant Lecturer, The High Institute for Tourism and Hotels, 6 October, Egypt

2 Lecturer, Tourist Guidance Department, Faculty of Tourism and hotels, Minia University, Minia, Egypt

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The body language of women in ancient Egypt may be detected in various contexts. One of these contexts is clearly represented through scenes of women accompanying their husbands. Body language is a type of nonverbal communication that was meant to deliver messages about certain people, certain occupations, certain culture, certain situation, etc…. This paper aims to highlight the body language of women in ancient Egypt who accompanying their husbands through scenes of the private tombs. The objectives of this study are to determine the body language of women while accompanying their husbands through gestures and poses, classify the different group of gestures, detect their body language development through ages and finally to discuss the different types of gestures and their meaning. A descriptive and analytical methodology will be applied to achieve this study objectives through displaying tomb scenes from different cemeteries and from different periods. Result of this study reviles those women were represented in various positions with their husbands, which express love, tender, satisfaction and containment towards their husbands. Moreover, hand and arm gestures that express concern and love are the most detected gestures in this context. 

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