Practice question · True or false
Egyptian tomb paintings of overflowing granaries are reliable evidence that famine never occurred.
Hints
- Ask what the image was made to accomplish.
- Depicting eternal abundance is a wish, not a record.
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False
Why
Tomb art depicts the eternal abundance the deceased wished for, not the harvest record. Famine appears in administrative texts and skeletons, never in the paintings that were commissioned to deny it.
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