Necklace of fly beads, Egyptian, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, 1550–1295 B.C., part of the MFA Boston collection

Fly ornament necklaces, occasionally presented to courageous soldiers, may have been worn as talismans to ward off insects.

Head of a funerary couch, in the shape of Ammit 😛

Ammit is a celestial beast who bestows final judgement on the deceased and devours the unjust in the court of Osiris.

Populalrly depicted in funerary texts like the Book of the Dead, Ammit is usually a combination of a crocodile's head, the front legs of a lion, and the hindquarters of a hippopotamus.

Found among three ritual funerary couches in Tutankhamun's antechamber and made of stuccoed gilded wood with each animal's eyes inlaid with colored glass paste, this particular couch is variedly composed of a curiously different configuration: a hippopotamus' head wearing a wig, a leopard's body, and a crocodile's tail and crest

Ancient Egyptian heart amulet (gold and green schist) of one Manhata. Artist unknown; ca. 1479-1425 BCE (reign of Thutmose III, 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom). From the Tomb of the Three Foreign Wives of Thutmose III at Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, Thebes; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Hunter's Daughter (c. 1422–1411 BC) via the Ancient Egyptian collection Tomb of Menna (1422–1390 BC) wall and panel painting

Illustration of Lord Khepri

#HedgehogWeek 🦔:

All hedgehogs are capable of volvation aka conglobation - aka, they can roll up into an armored ball in defense. 🙂

Hedghog Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, c. 1550–1450 BCE Faience, diameter 5.8cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: https://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544054

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Upper Part of the Seated Statue of a Queen

New Kingdom, ca. 1580-1550 B.C.

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Today is the 100th Anniversary of king Tutankhamun tomb's discovery.

The Iconic Original Historical Photos of the discovery.

4 November 1922- 4 November 2022 - 100 YEARS of GOLD.

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Louvre, Paris, 1973. Leica M3 with 50 mm Leitz Elmar on Kodak film, scanned from negative. 

The statue in the foreground is The Seated Scribe from ancient Egypt (ca. 2620–2500 BCE).

I was 17 when I took this picture. Time flies!

Egyptian Lotus-Shaped Chalices, ca. 1290-1070 BC (New Kingdom), part of the Walters Art Museum Collection

The blue lotus is represented in numerous New Kingdom faience chalices. The Egyptian name for these chalices was the same as the word for lotus flower: "seshen."

MWW Artwork of the Day (8/31/22) Twenty-Second Dynasty (Egyptian, 943-716 BCE) Horus, Osiris and Isis (c. 874-850 BCE) Gold, lapis lazuli & glass, 17.6 × 6.6 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris

This gold and lapis lazuli statue in the Louvre depicts the gods (from left to right) Horus, Osiris, and Isis. In mythology Isis was both Osiris’s sister and wife and Horus was their son. The deities are recognizable by their attributes: the feathered crown and shroud for Osiris; the falcon head and double crown for Horus; and the horned disk for Isis. Osiris is crouching on a pillar of a deep blue lapis lazuli that places him at the same level as his family. An inscription under the base reads: "The king of Upper and Lower Egypt, the master of the Two Lands, Usermaatre, the chosen of Amun, the son of Ra, the lord of the crowns, Osorkon beloved of Amun"; and opposite, from left to right: "I grant you the years of Atum, like Ra, I grant you encompassing bravery and total victory, I give you countless jubilees; thus speaks Osiris Wennefer."

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The Egyptian deity Horus as a Roman emperor. The figure bears the falcon-head of Horus, topped by the characteristic double crown (pschent) of Egyptian pharaohs, but also wears Roman armor (specifically lorica squamata, consisting of metal scales sewn to a fabric backing) with a small gorgoneion. Artist unknown; 2nd cent. CE. Now in the Louvre. Photo credit: © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons /

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Girl with flowers c. 1422–1411 BC via the Ancient Egyptian collection Tomb of Menna (1422–1390 BC) wall and panel painting

My rendition of the Ancient Egyptian Winged Sun symbol, hand carved in Carrara marble and gilt with 24 carat gold.