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Ancient Egyptian coffin, made of bronze and gilded wood for an ibis, found at Hermopolis, Egypt, Ptolemaic Period (323-30 BCE). Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

Bronze collection of divine figures: the goddess Isis (left) with the child Horus, the god Osiris (middle), and the god Harpokrates (right) wearing the double crown. Egypt, Saite period to Ptolemaic period, 7th to 4th centuries BCE. State...

Although the use of glazed tiles and colored paste inlays is known from as early as the Old Kingdom, the apogee of their use came during the New Kingdom. An almost identical frieze of lotuses, other flowers, and grape clusters is known to...

Afterlife Book of the Dead Canopy Class Coffin Texts Domestic Cult Field of Reeds Heka Kites of Nephthys Ma'at Nomarch Pyramid Texts Rite Scribe Senet Shabti Dolls Silo Veneration Vizier

Celarius, 1742.

Thebes was the capital of Egypt during the period of the New Kingdom (c.1570-c.1069 BCE) and became an important center of worship of the god Amun (also known as Amon or Amen, a combination of the earlier gods Atum and Ra). Its sacred name...

Painted wooden model group: four figures preparing food and beer. 6th Dynasty, Sidmant, Egypt. British Museum, London.

Baskets of spices and condiments, including tarragon, cumin and lard, from the tomb of Kha, Deir el-Medina, Egypt, c. 1425-1353 BCE. Museo Egizio, Turin.

Copper cult statue of a crocodile from Faiyum, Middle Kingdom of Egypt, 12th Dynasty, circa 1800 BCE. State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany.

This limestone fragment depicts a prow of a ship. There are sailors, facing right; the foremost sailor holds a pole or a spear. The ship was originally painted black while the sailors were painted red. From Egypt, precise provenance is unknown...