A section of the Book of the Dead of princess Henuttawy, depicting Osiris, the lord of the underworld and judge of the dead, lying beneath the personification of the night sky. 19th Dynasty of Egypt (... View MoreA section of the Book of the Dead of princess Henuttawy, depicting Osiris, the lord of the underworld and judge of the dead, lying beneath the personification of the night sky. 19th Dynasty of Egypt (1292-1189 BCE), now housed at the British Museum [842x556]
Detail from an ancient Egyptian papyrus, depicting a lion playing the board game of senet against a gazelle. The scene is one of multiple satiric vignettes of animals behaving like humans. ca. 1250 BC... View MoreDetail from an ancient Egyptian papyrus, depicting a lion playing the board game of senet against a gazelle. The scene is one of multiple satiric vignettes of animals behaving like humans. ca. 1250 BC.
Egyptian bronze head of a cat with amber eyes, c. 600 BCE. Glyptotek Museum.
The Step Pyramid at Saqqara
Saqqara is a vast, ancient burial ground in Egypt, serving as the necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis. At Saqqara, the oldest complete stone building comp... View MoreThe Step Pyramid at Saqqara
Saqqara is a vast, ancient burial ground in Egypt, serving as the necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis. At Saqqara, the oldest complete stone building complex known in history was built, the Pyramid of Djoser, built during the Third Dynasty.
Another sixteen Egyptian kings built pyramids at Saqqara, which are now in various states of preservation. High officials added private funeral monuments to this necropolis during the entire Pharaonic period. It remained an important complex for non-royal burials and cult ceremonies for more than 3,000 years, well into Ptolemaic and Roman times.
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Egypt's newly discovered ancient tombs are nearly 5,000 years old The tombs date back to the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate eras.
Egypt announced on Thursday the discovery of five ancient tombs i... View MoreEgypt's newly discovered ancient tombs are nearly 5,000 years old The tombs date back to the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate eras.
Egypt announced on Thursday the discovery of five ancient tombs in Saqqara, marking the latest in a series of discoveries in the vast necropolis south of Cairo.
The stony tombs date back to the Old Kingdom (c.2700–2200 BCE) and First Intermediate (c.2181–2055 BCE) eras, Egypt's antiquities ministry said.
They were excavated northeast of the Pyramid of Merenre, a 52.5 meters-tall structure that was built during the Sixth Dynasty. The tombs, which are engraved with colorful shapes, belong to "top officials," the ministry added.
Mostafa El-Waziri, the head of Egypt's Supreme Antiquities Council, said the first tomb belongs to an official named IRY.
Yaret and it has a rectangular burial shaft while the third tomb belongs to Pepi Nefhany, who was the supervisor of the great house, a priest, and the purifier of the house. It has a six meters deep burial shaft."
El-Waziri said the fourth, also a six-meter deep burial shaft, belongs to a woman named Petty. She was the priest of Hathor, the goddess of fertility and love.
The "Uthman Wound". A big gash in the Pyramid of Menkaure (~2510 BC) created when Sultan Al-Aziz Uthman ordered the monument (alongside the rest of the Giza pyramids) demolished in AD 1196. But gave u... View MoreThe "Uthman Wound". A big gash in the Pyramid of Menkaure (~2510 BC) created when Sultan Al-Aziz Uthman ordered the monument (alongside the rest of the Giza pyramids) demolished in AD 1196. But gave up when the task proved to expensive. [2901x1648]
Fragment from Amarna, Monkeys. At the Louvre
Amarna Period
Anubis Shrine
The shrine was part of Tutankhamun's tomb, which dates from the 18th Dynasty. His tomb was found by Howard Carter on November 4, 1922, in the Valley of the Kings in Western Thebes. He f... View MoreAnubis Shrine
The shrine was part of Tutankhamun's tomb, which dates from the 18th Dynasty. His tomb was found by Howard Carter on November 4, 1922, in the Valley of the Kings in Western Thebes. He found it almost intact.
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