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This map illustrates the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (c. 2055–1650 BCE), a period of political stability, economic revival, and cultural flourishing between the turbulence of the First and Second Intermediate Periods. Established by Mentuhotep...

This is a steatite statuette which depicts 3 standing persons. The woman stands in the middle (her name is Aa-Nubt) and her sons (Khenti-Khati-Hetep and Maat-Neferu) flank her on either side. From Egypt, precise provenance of excavation is...

Drawings of stone tools belonging to the Middle Palaeolithic (sometimes called 'Mousterian') industries, found from Europe and the Near East to Africa between approximately 250,000 and 30,000 years ago. It is associated with archaic homo...

This map illustrates the changing patterns of Christian pilgrimage during the Middle Ages: for most Europeans the long, perilous, and costly journey to the Holy Land was too far, dangerous, and forbiddingly expensive, so devotion redirected...

Hand axe from the site of Lyndford Quarry (near Mundford, Norfolk, UK), which dates to around 60,000 years ago and falls within the Middle Palaeolithic industry.

Bodies in the Middle Ages, exhibition in Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, Zürich.

Bodies in the Middle Ages exhibition in the Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum, Zürich.

Ancient Egyptian literature comprises a wide array of narrative and poetic forms including inscriptions on tombs, stele, obelisks, and temples; myths, stories, and legends; religious writings; philosophical works; wisdom literature; autobiographies...

Characteristics of Sicilian Archaic Temples The large dimensions of the components, the presence of a propteron, an adyton, and other specific elements of the plan and elevation speak for an originally very autonomous development of Sicilian...

The votive or sacred Warka Vase is decorated with three horizontal registers and shows signs of repair in antiquity. The middle register depicts a procession of naked male figures carrying bowls and jars of sacrificial elements, such as fruit...