Ankh Symbol the Key Of The Life - Museum Replica

Ankh Symbol Ankh is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol of eternal life and indicates that the king or the god can give life or take it away. The ankh or key of life is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol used in Egyptian art and writing to represent the word for life and, by extension, as a symbol of life itself. The ankh has a cross shape but with a teardrop-shaped loop in place of a

vertical upper bar. The origins of the symbol are not known, although many hypotheses have been proposed.  In art, the symbol often appeared as a physical object representing either life or substances such as air or water that are related to it. It was especially commonly held in the hands of ancient Egyptian deities, or given by them to the pharaoh, to represent their power to sustain life and to revive human souls in the afterlife. The ankh was one of the most common decorative motifs in ancient Egypt

and was also used decoratively by neighbouring cultures. Coptic Christians adapted it into the crux ansata, a shape with a circular rather than an oval loop and used it as a variant of the Christian cross. The ankh came into widespread use in Western culture in the 1960s, and it is often used as a symbol of African cultural identity, Neopagan belief systems, and the goth subculture.