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A letter from Thomas Young about hieroglyphs
English polymath Thomas Young (1773-1829) had been trying to…
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A poem on papyrus
Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832), the French scholar wh…
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Basalt statue of Sematawy offering a shrine
Egyptian statues that show a figure offering a shrine are ca…
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Black steatite cippus
Cippi (a type of stelae) were popular from the sixth century…
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Black steatite shabti of Suneru
Shabti figures of the Eighteenth Dynasty (about 1550-1300 BC…
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Bone figure of a woman
The earliest three-dimensional representations of humans fro…
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Breccia statue of the goddess Taweret
Taweret was a fierce goddess who protected the mother and ch…
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Bronze arched sistrum with Hathor head decoration
The sistrum was basically a rattle comprising an arch (an in…
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Bronze door hinge bearing names of God's wives of Amun
This hinge is of massive proportions, and probably belonged …
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Bronze figure of Harpokrates
The name Harpokrates is the Hellenized version of the Egypti…
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Bronze figure of Horus of Pe
This falcon-headed deity is associated with Buto, the ancien…
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Bronze mirror decorated with two falcons
The form of the ancient Egyptian mirror changed little from …
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Bronze probe
According to the Greek historian Herodotus (about 485-425 BC…
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Bronze relic-box for a mummified eel
In ancient Egypt, the smaller mummified animals and birds we…
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Bronze relic-box for a mummified falcon
Smaller mummified animals and birds were placed inside bronz…
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Bronze seated figure of Amun
Animal worship and the worship of animal-headed gods were pr…
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Bronze staff in the shape of a uraeus
This unique item is thought to have been a magician's wand. …
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Bronze statue of Khonsuirdis
Bronze figures are not particularly common before the Late P…
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Bronze statuette group of the king before the Apis bull
The Apis bull was sacred to the god Ptah of Memphis. Only on…
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Bronze statuette of Pimay
This statue shows Pimay, a king of Egypt during the Libyan p…
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Bronze statuette of the moon god Iah
The god Iah, whose name means 'moon', first appears in the L…
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Bronze statuette of Thutmose IV
The posture of the king kneeling and holding two pots in off…
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Bronze tweezers
These tweezers are made of a single piece of metal. They clo…
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Calcite headrest
Egyptian headrests were the same basic shape throughout thei…
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Canopic jar of Horudja
The jars used to contain the removed organs from a mummy wer…
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Embalming plaque of wax
Ancient Egyptian embalmers would remove the internal organs …
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Faience amulets: the Sons of Horus
Many ancient Egyptian deities were concerned with the protec…
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Faience bowl with pool and lotus motifs
Fragments of bowls such as this have been found in temples a…
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Faience finger ring
Until the New Kingdom (1550-1070 BC), faience had almost alw…
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Faience pectoral
Pectoral necklaces were laid on the chest of a mummy, and us…
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Faience wedjat eye
The wedjat is associated with Horus , the god of the sky, …
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Faience wedjat eye amulet
The wedjat eye is perhaps the best known of all Egyptian pro…
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Fragment of a basalt Egyptian-style statue of Ptolemy I
The founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty ruled Egypt as Ptolemy …
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Funerary cloth of Isetnefret
This type of painted linen panel was placed on the chest of …
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Gilded cartonnage mummy mask
Mummy masks are a depiction of the head and chest of the dea…
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Glazed djed pillar
Djed pillars were among the amulets most commonly placed on …
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Glazed steatite scaraboid
The scarab had been used as a seal, sometimes mounted on a r…
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Gold bangle with gold and silver amulets
This bangle is made of two bands of beaten gold separated by…
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Gold hoop-shaped earring
This earring is made of a grooved strip of gold, curved into…
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Gold pectoral of a hovering falcon
Pectorals first appear in royal burials of the Middle Kingdo…
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Gold shell amulet in with the name of Senwosret I
This oyster shell amulet is of a type which became very popu…
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Gold signet ring of the Chief Steward, Sheshonq
Rings were a popular form of adornment from earliest times i…
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Granite head of a bald man
This head is probably from a kneeling statue: it has the rem…
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Green siltstone head of a king
This fine green siltstone head exhibits the bland, serene fe…
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Hank of flax
The principal material used for clothing worn in ancient Egy…
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Hematite headrest amulet
Headrests of stone, wood or ivory were an essential part of …
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Henry Salt's firman
Henry Salt (1780-1827) was a key figure in the history of th…
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Lidded basket containing fruit
This small object is an example of Egyptian basketry at its …
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Limestone head of an official
This head has many similarities with those of the reign of A…
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Limestone model of a town house
This model shows us what an ancient Egyptian house might hav…
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Limestone shabti figure of King Ahmose
Shabti , or funerary figurines buried with the deceased, fir…
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Limestone statue of a husband and wife
We do not know the names of this couple, or where their stat…
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Limestone statue of Panehsy
Such a statue would have been placed in a temple, exhibiting…
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Limestone stela of the sculptor Userwer
The unfinished decoration of this stela is particularly inte…
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Limestone stela with three figures of Bes
Bes was very prominent in the religious concerns of the ordi…
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Mask of a woman
Funerary images in ancient Egypt were not restricted to the …
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Mummy of a falcon with a bronze mask
Large numbers of falcon mummies have been discovered at vari…
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Necklace of lizard amulets, beads and pendants
Hollow gold lizards alternate with cornelian barrel beads an…
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Net made from linen thread and faience beads
From the beginning of the first millennium BC onwards, an in…
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Obsidian amulet in the shape of two fingers
The 'two-finger' amulet shows the index and middle fingers, …
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Oval lidded basket of figs and dates
In ancient Egypt baskets were cheap and relatively easy to p…
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Painted limestone statue of Nynofretmin
Egyptian statues of the Old Kingdom (about 2613-2160 BC) wer…
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Painted wooden canopic jars
The Sons of Horus were minor deities who protected the inter…
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Painted wooden figure of Osiris
From the Nineteenth to the mid-Twenty-second Dynasty (about …
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Painted wooden statue of an official
Figures such as this were placed in the tomb as a substitute…
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Papyrus from the Book of the Dead of Ankhwahibre
In the Late Period (661-332 BC), elaborate coffins and large…
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Papyrus from the Book of the Dead of Padiamenet
This is the only known sheet of the papyrus from the Book of…
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Papyrus from the Instruction of Amenemopet
'Instructions' or ' wisdom literature ' are an important ele…
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