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Bird's eye view of the fort of Batticaloa, copperplate printing on paper by Johannes Janssonius Waasbergen, c. 1665. Nationaal Archief, The Hague.

The Viking building tradition relied more on the shipbuilder’s eye than on an obsession with rulers. Correct proportions were established through memory and experience carried into the hand. Charcoal illustration...

Ra (also given as Re) is the sun god of ancient Egypt. He is one of the oldest deities in the Egyptian pantheon and was later merged with others such as Horus, becoming Ra-Horakhty (the morning sun), Amun (as noonday sun), and...

Set defeated by Horus as depicted in the Ptolemaic Period Temple of Horus at Edfu.

A scene depicting Horus' victory over Set from the Temple of Horus at Edfu, built in the Ptolemaic Period.

This painted wooden stela depicts a man (his name is identified as Ihefy and his title was "the doorkeeper of the house of Amun") adoring the hawk-headed god Horus. Horus sits on a throne and holds a flail. There is a red...

Small statue of Horus. Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst (State Museum of Egyptian Art), Munich.

Standing-striding granodiorite statue of the god Horus, from the mortuary temple of Amenophis III, Western Thebes, New Kingdom of Egypt, 18th Dynasty, c. 1360 BCE. State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany.

Scene from the Temple of Hathor (Abu Simbel, Egypt), built during the reign of Ramesses II, c. 1264-1224 BCE. Set and Horus blessing Ramesses II.

In this silver statue, Horus wearing the double crown. Egypt, 27th Dynasty, circa 500 BCE. (State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, Germany).