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Limestone tomb niche with a false-door stela and 2 side walls. From the tomb of princess Chnumit (also written Khnumet), Saqqara (Sakkara), modern-day Egypt. Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, circa 2200 BCE. (State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich...

This limestone fragment shows carpenters making funeral furniture at a quayside. The block came from a wall of the dismantled mastaba tomb-chapel of Tepemankh (Djadjamankh). From Saqqara, Egypt. 5th Dynasty, 2494 to 2345 BCE. The Petrie...

The hieroglyphic signs on this calcite-alabaster ovoid jar mention the name the Egyptian pharaoh Pepi I and his Sed festival, in addition to naming the pyramid complex of Pepi I (r. 2335-2285 BCE) at Memphis, the capital of the Old Kingdom...

This small limestone false door comes from the mastaba-tomb of the Superintendent of the Hairdressers of the Palace Niankhre. On the rectangular panel at the top, the dead man sits before a table of offerings. The central door-niche is inscribed...

This limestone fragment came from a New Kingdom tomb at Abusir/Saqqara, Egypt. The relief depicts five enthroned pharaohs, looking to the left. In front of the face of every one of them, a cartouche is inscribed. Only the cartouche at the...

Mummy wrapping of a man named Djedher, son of Sekhmetnefret, inscribed in hieratic with funerary texts from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. From Saqqara, Egypt, Late Period of ancient Egypt, 4th century BCE or later. The British Museum, London...

Faience cup of Shoshenq with a representation of different deities. From Saqqara, Egypt. Third Intermediate Period, 22nd (Libyan or Bubastite) Dynasty, 944-716 BCE. It is on display at the Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany.

Limestone, Saqqara (Egypt), 18th Dynasty (c. 1325-1300 BC) From the 18th Dynasty onwards, mudbrick pyramids were used to mark the tombs of private individuals. These small structures were topped by a stone pyramidion. Many such pyramidia...

Medicine in the ancient world was often combined with what we would consider magic, especially in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. In Mesopotamia, the goddess Gula who is also known as Ninkarrak and Ninisinna presided over health and healing...

Join World History Encyclopedia as they talk to Garry Shaw, an Egyptologist and author of a brand new book Egyptian Mythology: A Travelers Guide From Aswan to Alexandria. Garry's book on Egyptian mythology starts with a journey beginning...