Egyptian Collection

Kadesh Treaty, 1269 BC. Egyptian-Hittite Peace Treaty. Terra
Kadesh Treaty, 1269 BC. Egyptian-Hittite Peace Treaty between Ramesses II and Hattusilis III. Terracotta. Hittite version. From Hattusas (Bogazkoy). Archaeological Museum. Istanbul. Turkey

an illustration of the Rosetta Stone The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of hieroglyphic writing

Gold mask of Tutankhamun, Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Book of the Dead or Papyrus of Any. ca. 1275 BC. 19th Dynasty. Scene from the dead judgement before the presence of Osiris. Egyptian art. New Kingdom. Painting. UNITED KINGDOM. London

The Rosetta Stone, British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Egyptian art. Nefertiti bust. Limestone and stucco. Neues Mu
Egyptian art. Nefertiti. 14th century B.C. Egyptian Princess, wife of Amenhotep IV Akhenaton. Bust. Limestone and stucco. It is believed to have been crafted in 1345 BC by the sculptor Thutmose

House of Axel Munthe, Villa San Michele, Anacapri, Capri, Campania, Italy, Europe

Bas-relief of the Goddess Sekhmet, Temple of Seti I, Abydos, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Mural from the wall of the tomb-chapel of Nebamun near Thebes Egypt dates to around 1350 - 1400 BC

Map of Ancient Egypt. Date: 1814

Statue of the ancient Egyptian god Bes, Temple at Dendera, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

The hollow head of the Sphinx, Egypt
Remarkable discoveries within the Sphinx: the temple within its hollow head. Professor G. A. Reisners interesting discoveries. A diagrammatic view of hidden temples and a stairway inside the Sphinx

Mask of Tutankhamun
The famous mask of Pharoah TUTANKHAMUN, ruler of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt 1361 - 1352 BC, (Egyptian Museum, Cairo), made of solid gold, with inlaid glass and lapis lazuli

Pectoral of the sacred eye flanked by the serpent goddess of the North and the vulture goddess of the South, made from gold cloisonne with glass-paste, from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun

Fragment of wall painting from the tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, c1350 BC. Though a standard subject for a Theban tomb painting, this banquet scene is one of the finest examples

Egyptian art. Relief depicting Akhenaten, Nefertiti and thre
Egyptian art. A house altar depicting Akhenaten, Nefertiti and three of their Daughters. Relief. Limestone. New Kingdom. Amarna period. 18th dynasty. C. 1350 B.C. Egyptian Museum of Berlin. Germany

Golden Mask of Egyptian Pharoah Tutankhamun
The famous mask of Pharoah TUTANKHAMUN, ruler of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt 1361 - 1352 BC, (Egyptian Museum, Cairo), made of solid gold, with inlaid glass and lapis lazuli

Cleopatras Needle and Shell Mex House, London. Date: circa 1940

A Street Scene in Cairo, by Charles Robertson (1844-1891)

Tetisheri, Ancient Egyptian queen of the 17th dynasty, 16th century BC (1926). Tetisheri was the queen consort of Senakhtenre Tao I, the seventh pharaoh of the 17th dynasty

Egyptian Arch, Newry / Bessbrook Road
Egyptian Arch, Newry/Bessbrook Road - a view of the Egyptian style railway arch over the road from the Newry side, looking towards Derrymore House and Camlough

Pharaoh Amenhotep I. Egypt
Pharaoh Amenhotep I. Painting on stucco. New Kingdom. 20th Dynasty. 1152-1145 BC. Thebes. Grave 359. Neues Museum. Berlin. Germany

Mena House Hotel, Cairo, Egypt - View of Cheops Pyramid. The hotel was a former Royal hunting lodge, which opened as a Hotel in 1869. Date: circa 1920s

Statue of seated Ramses II, Court of Ramses II, Luxor Temple, Luxor, Thebes, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Fowling in the marshes. ca. 1400 BC. 18th Dynasty. Wall painting from the tomb of Nebamun where he appears with his wife Hatshepsut and son. Egyptian art. New Kingdom. Painting. UNITED KINGDOM

Tomb of Tutankhamun. s. XIV BC. EGYPT. QUENA
Tomb of Tutankhamun. s.XIV BC. EGYPT. QUENA

Nefertiti
Bust of Nefertiti (C.1370 BC C.1330 BC), chief consort of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. The original from Tell el Amarna, attributed to the sculptor Thutmose, is in Berlins Neues Museum

Battle of Actium, 31 BC
Sea battle of Actium, in which Octavius defeated Antony and Cleopatra, 31 BC. Hand colored wodcut of a 19th-century illustration

The back of the gold-plated throne, showing queen Ankhesenamun putting the finishing touches to the kings toilet, from the tomb of the pharoah Tutankhamun, discovered in the Valley of the Kings

Nubians in Ancient Egypt
Nubians from the south bring tribute to the Egyptian Pharaoh; they wear a variety of clothing - skirts short or long, tunics, animal skins, and plumed headgear

Mena House Hotel, Giza, Cairo, Egypt

Egypt. Roman period. Fayum mummy portraits. Man. Encaustic painting. Coptic period. End 1st century A.D. Pushkin Museum. Moscow. Russia

Veiled Egyptian Woman - Cairo. Date: circa 1910s

Egypt, Cairo, Giza, View of all three Great Pyramids at sunset

Pyramids along the Nile
Pyramids at Gizeh, with dhows on the Nile River in Egypt. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

The Nile is Egypt, Cooks Nile Steamers
Poster or handbill advertising Cooks Nile Steamers, the best way to explore Egypts ancient splendour and modern charm. Showing an ancient monument with hieroglyphics, with two men in Egyptian dress

King Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti making a Sacrifice
Illustration showing the ancient Egyptian rulers King Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti making an offering to the sun

The kings two daggers, one with a blade of gold, the other of iron, from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

One of the double doors of the gilt shrine showing the goddess Isis, from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Music / Opera / Verdi / Aida
AIDA Mlle Soyer as Amneris in a production at the Academie Nationale de Musique, Paris

Hoover Building
Possibly the most significant arterial road factory of its date. IoE 201068

The Hypaethral Temple at Philae, called the Bed of Pharaoh, Egypt, 1849. From Egypt and Nubia, Vol 2, by David Roberts

Egypt. Goddess Nephthys. Relief. Memphis
Egyptian Art. Goddess Nephthys wearing a headdress in the shape of a house. Relief. Mit Rahina Open Air Museum. Memphis. Egypt

Egyptian Art. Relief depicting a bee, symbol of Lower Egypt
Egyptian Art. The Karnak Temple Complex. Relief depicting a bee, symbol of Lower Egypt. New Kingdom. Egypt

Colonel Stodare at the Egyptian Hall
Colonel Stodare the liverpudlian ventriloquist and magician (1831 to 1866) performing using an Indian Basket at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London. Date: circa 1865

Rosetta Stone
Illustration shows the Rosetta Stone as it sits on a pedestal, 1800s

The Book of the Dead: Heruben Papyrus. 1075 - 945 BC. Papyrus with the cow goddess Hathor, a woman and two snakes. Work from the 21st Dynasty. Egyptian art. Third Intermediate Period

Goddess Maat. 1312 -1298 BC. Represented with a feather in the head. Egyptian art. New Kingdom. Painting. ITALY. Florence. National Museum of Archaeology. Proc: EGYPT. Dayr al-Bahri

Book of the Deads. 651 -525 BC. Papyrus. Egyptian art. New Kingdom. TURKEY. Istanbul. Archaeological Museum

PTOLEMY, Claudius Ptolemaeus ( c. AD 100 - c
" PTOLEMY, Claudius Ptolemaeus ( c. AD 100 - c. AD 170). Egyptian astronomer, mathematician and geographer. Map of the Ancient World. From the work " Ptolomeus Geographicorum Libri"

Egyptian Airlines Poster
Poster, Egyptian Airlines, Cairo, showing De Havilland passenger biplane SU-ABH flying over Egypt. MISR Airwork SAE. 1933

Hermes Trismegistus, classical god
Engraving depicting Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretism (joining) of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth

Arabian Picasso triggerfish (Rhinecanthus assasi). The Arabian Picasso triggerfish is found in shallow, sandy areas of coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean

Chart of some early alphabets
Various ancient alphabets: Coptic, Syriac, Ethioptic, Gothic, and Illyrian (Servian). Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Passover ritual as begun in ancient Egypt
Jewish family marking their home with lambs blood for the first Passover. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Sun-god Ra on his daily journey, ancient Egypt
Sun-god Ra embarking for his daily journey through Egypt. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of ancient Egyptian art

Egyptian deities separating night and day
Ancient Egyptian deities Shu separating Sibu and Nuit. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of a painting on a mummy-case

Mural from tomb-chapel of Nebamun at Thebes Egypt. Nebamun was an Ancient Egyptian Nobleman and this shows him overlooking geese brought to him and dates between 1350 - 1400 BC

Piazza del Popolo, Rome, Italy
View of the Piazza del Popolo in Rome, Italy

Egypt - Old Egyptian men at prayer

Tutankhamun Sarcophagus
The sarcophagus of Pharoah TUTANKHAMUN, ruler of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt 1361 - 1352 BC, (Egyptian Museum, Cairo)

Owen Jones Egyptian 10
The ornaments in this plate are taken from Mummy-cases in the Louvre (1-5), from the Tomb at Thebes (6+7), from a Mummy-case (8+9) and from the ceilings of various tombs

Tarot Card 10 - La Roue de Fortune (The Wheel of Fortune)

Pyramids at Giza. Satellite image of the three pyramids at Giza, in northern Egypt

A Bedouin guide with his camel, overlooking the Pyramids of Giza, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Cairo, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Painted ivory plaque from the lid of a coffer showing Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun in a garden, the lower frieze shows young women plucking mandrakes, from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun

The king in the form of the god Anubis, from the tomb of Tutankhamun, discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Statue of the goddess Serket protecting the canopic chest or shrine, from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Alabaster vase inlaid with floral garlands, from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Pyramids at sunset, Giza, UNESCO World Heritage Site, near Cairo, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Mural showing the god Anubis leaning over mummy of Ramses II, in the Tomb of Sinjin, chief artist to Ramses II, Deir el Medina, Thebes, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Temple of Hathor, Dendera, Egypt, North Africa

Ancient Egyptian Writing
1. Cat cuts off serpent head 2. Ani and his wife, Tutu, adoring the scarab-headed god Khepera on the Solar Bark 3. The god Atum in Solar Bark 4. Couchant lion on pedestal

Tutankhamun, Pharaoh
TUTANKHAMUN, PHARAOH Egyptian ruler of the 18th dynasty of Egypt 1361-52 BC

Pyramids of Gizeh, Egypt
The Pyramids of Gizeh in Egypt, with water, trees, and camels in the foreground

Victoria College, Alexandria - Quadrangle
A view through the arcading of the Quadrangle at Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt

Colossi of Ramses II, floodlit, Great Temple of Ramses II, Abu Simbel, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Alopochen aegyptiaca, Egyptian goose
Plate 5 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Ancient Alphabets
Various ancient writing examples including the Egyptian and Phoenician alphabets. Date: Circa 1760

Twoband anemonefish (Amphiprion bicinctus) in sea anemone on a coral reef. Anemonefish, also called clownfish, live in association with anemones. Both partners benefit in a mutualistic association

Arabian Picasso triggerfish (Rhinecanthus assasi). Photographed in the Red Sea, Egypt

Abu Simbel Egypt, Tourist inside Temple (NR)

The Nile -- Notes for Passengers on Cooks Steamers
A bust of Queen Nefertiti in profile, with a sketch of the River Nile in the background, on a Thomas Cook publication, Notes for Passengers on Cooks Steamers

Petrie at Daphne
The Pharoahs Palace at Daphne being excavated by renowned archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 - 1942) who devoted his life to studying Egyptian culture

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"Unveiling the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt: A Journey through Time and Art" Step into the enchanting world of ancient Egypt, where history comes alive through captivating artifacts and breathtaking art. Wilson, Keppel & Betty in Horace Shepherds' "A Ray of Sunshine" (1950) may have brought joy to audiences, but it is the treasures from this land that truly mesmerize. Behold the iconic Gold mask of Tutankhamun at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, a symbol of opulence and power that has fascinated generations. Across continents, The Rosetta Stone stands proudly at the British Museum in London, bridging language barriers and unlocking secrets from antiquity. Egyptian art tells stories like no other. The Nefertiti bust showcases exquisite craftsmanship on limestone and stucco, while a relief depicts Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and their three children with an ethereal beauty that transcends time. Delve into spirituality with the Book of the Dead or Papyrus of Any (ca. 1275), offering insights into ancient beliefs about life after death. The mural from Nebamun's tomb-chapel near Thebes transports us back to 1350-1400 BC as we witness scenes depicting daily life along the Nile River. Marvel at Tutankhamun's intricately designed mask - a testament to artistic mastery combined with reverence for departed pharaohs. From temples to marshes, Egyptian landscapes come alive through artistry carved in stone. Admire Sekhmet's fierce yet elegant bas-relief at Temple Seti I in Abydos or encounter Bes – protector against evil spirits – within Dendera's temple walls. To fully appreciate this civilization’s grandeur, explore an ancient map revealing Egypt’s strategic location along Africa’s northeastern coast; its fertile lands nurtured by mighty Nile waters ensured prosperity for centuries.