Does Caricature Art Date Back to Ancient Egypt?

Many researchers and archaeologists study the early notions of one of the current most trending art, the Caricature, in ancient Egypt as the ancient Egyptians masters the majority of the arts we know now in our time.

Famous caricaturist Amr Fahmy expressed that the early notions of such art date back to ancient Egypt, asserting that ancient Egyptians depended on expressing the sense of irony through such drawings on papyrus.

"Egyptian archaeologists confirm that the art of caricature dates back to the Pharaonic times and that it is old in the ancient Egyptian civilization.

The comics that ridicule and criticize the political and social situations lead back to thousands of years," researcher Mona Abdulmoniem asserted in her research paper about the history of this art in ancient Egypt.

Furthermore, it had political, social, and religious significance in the past. One of the most memorable sketches is the scene of a cat guarding and leading six geese.

Another remarkable scene is the one from Ramses VI's tomb representing a dog biting the foot of a lion, while the lion is trying to flee, turning its head in terror.

The scene was in red and black and was probably a representation of the unstable position of the pharaoh since the lion always represented the power of the king according to professor Alaa Shahin.

So, these previous examples reflected how much the ancient Egyptian are aware of creating a sense of political and social irony that expressed their points of view in the time of instability and chaos.