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Bust of the Egyptian queen Tiye (1398-1338 BCE), wife of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, mother of Akhenaten, and grandmother of both Tutankhamun and Ankhsenamun. Altes Museum, Berlin.

The funeral mask of the Egyptian queen Tiye, 1398-1338 BCE. Tiye was the wife of the pharaoh Amenhotep III, mother of Akhenaten, and grandmother of both Tutankhamun and Ankhsenamun.(Altes Museum, Berlin)

A Torah in the Synagogue of Ashkenazi Jews in Baku, Azerbaijan.

A portion of the Terracotta Army, the clay life-size army in the tomb of the Qin emperor Shi Huangdi. c. 210 BCE, Shaanxi Province, China.

Sarcophagus of Ramesses III (1184-1153 BCE). Found in the Valley of Kings. Louvre, Paris

Sitting figurine of the goddess Ma'at. (Louvre, Paris)

This is a raised and colored relief within the interior of the Temple of Beit el-Wali, Lake Nasser, Aswan, Egypt (c. 1276 BC). On the left, Ramesses II makes an offering of the goddess Ma'at to the god Amun.

Arjuna wins the hand of Draupadi after defeating his other Pandavas brothers in a competition set up by her father, the king of Drupada. Arjuna won by hitting the eye of the rotating fish in the sky. (c. 1885 CE watercolour, Victoria & Albert...

According to some intepretations this temple relief sculpture represents the five Pandavas of Hindu mythology and Draupadi, one of their wives. The heroes of the epic Mahabharata are here shown (left to right): Bhima, Arjuna, Yudisthira...

A gilded bronze statuette of the Egyptian goddess of war Neith. 664-332 BCE. Louvre Museum, Paris.