6. Highly Developed Culture

All civilizations must have a highly developed culture including architecture, arts like painting, music, dance etc. Architecture was used by the architects to built temples for worship or sacrifice and also built palaces and tombs for kings and other important people. They used wood, limestones, mud bricks and stones as the basic materials for the constructions.

Painters and sculptors portrayed stories of nature and also provided depictions of the rulers and gods they worshiped. Their paintings also reflects the style of the societies that created them. Sculptor engraved their sculptures from mud, stones, marbles, granites and limestones.

 

Ancient music was the music that developed in a literate culture replacing prehistoric culture. Ancient music is designated by the characterization of the basic notes and scales. It may have been transmitted through oral or written systems. Various musical instruments such as drums, flutes, and stringed instruments were invented.

In most ancient civilization, dancing before the god is an important element in temple rituals. Performing stately movements by linking hands and arms which mime significant events in the story of a God or imitate cosmic patterns such as the rhythm of night and day. Dancing along with the rhythmic music has became an important part of ceremony, rituals, celebrations and entertainment in ancient civilizations.