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Tenskwatawa, a Shawnee political and religious leader (c. 1775-1837), oil on canvas by Henry Inman after Charles Bird King, c. 1830-33. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

The Report of Wenamun (also known as The Tale of Wenamun or The Report of Wenamon) is an Egyptian literary work dated to c. 1090-1075 BCE toward the end of the New Kingdom (c.1570 - c. 1069 BCE). The piece was originally interpreted as an...

The literature of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2040-1782 BCE) is justly famous as some of the best the culture ever produced. Great works like The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor and The Tale of Sinuhe stand among the great literary masterpieces...

Papyrus is a plant (cyperus papyrus) which once grew in abundance, primarily in the wilds of the Egyptian Delta but also elsewhere in the Nile River Valley, but is now quite rare. Papyrus buds opened from a horizontal root growing in shallow...

Native American medicine bag, illustration from the Annual Archaeological Report, 1915, by Rowland B. Orr, published in "Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, No.17-18" (1916).

Laboratory Report by Gemmological Certification Services, London (Number 78157-71, 23 May 2018). It confirms that the Correya Dog is made from tremolite-nephrite jade.

Papyrus Moscow 120, page 2, c. 1090-1075 BCE Held in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Image source: M. Коростовцев: Путeшecтвиe Ун-Амуна в Библ. 1960

Papyrus Moscow 120, page 1 Held in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Image source: M. Коростовцев: Путeшecтвиe Ун-Амуна в Библ. 1960

Tel Kabri is an archaeological site in northwestern Israel that is best known as the location of one of the largest palaces in Canaan in the Middle Bronze Age or "MB" (ca. 2,000–1,500 BCE). Although Tel Kabri reached the height...

Jacques Necker (l. 1732-1804) was a Swiss banker and statesman who served as finance minister to King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792). He served in the king's ministry three separate times, tasked with navigating France through its dire...