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A game of shatranj, section of a miniature painting in the Baysunghur Shahnameh illustrated manuscript by Mulla ʿAlī & Amīr Ḵalīl, 1430. Depicted here is a 6th-century game of shatranj, a predecessor to contemporary chess, being demonstrated...

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This bronze fragment (with gold insoles) was part of a Menat (also Minet) necklace. On the right, a child-god, wearing a rearing cobra (uraeus) on his head stands before the goddess Mut-Sekhmet-Bastet. The child-god proffers a sistrum to...