Consisting of two rows of small, flat gold beads, with twenty-one finely worked pendants suspended at regular intervals, this delicate necklace, measuring approximately 37 cm in length, was discovered among the linen wrappings of Princess Khenmet’s mummy and has been reconstructed in its most plausible original arrangement. The amulets are fashioned in gold and inlaid...
Found resting between the two innermost shrines within the burial chamber of Tutankhamun, this magnificent fan once bloomed with thirty ostrich feathers, alternately white and brown, fluttering like desert light and shade. Though the feathers have long since vanished, their tiny stumps still cling to the perforations along the outer rim: a ghostly reminder of...
Painted limestone relief depicting two men, Qar and Idu, hunting ducks with boomerangs. What ancient Egyptians like Qar and Idu were doing was taking one of the oldest hunting methods in human history (throwing a stick at something) and turning it into a pass time. In ancient Egypt, duck hunting held significance primarily as a...
This wooden model depicts a man squatting on the floor and cooking a thigh of a duck he holds in his left hand, while on the other hand he holds a fan to spark the fire, painted in front of him on the base. These models were placed in the tombs to provide the dead...
Like this agate frog ring. Finger rings in the shape of frogs were produced throughout the Pharaonic period and in very different materials. Perhaps the lid of a cosmetic vessel, on an oval plinth, naturalistically rendered, the eyes and mouth delineated by incision, pierced horizontally through the chest and stomach; mounted as a ring in...
Among the earliest treasures glimpsed by Howard Carter when he first peered into the antechamber of KV62 on 4 November 1922 lay a vessel of almost poetic delicacy: a chalice carved from a single piece of translucent alabaster, shaped as a white lotus in full bloom. Dating to the reign of Tutankhamun (c. 1332–1323 B.C.),...
Inside his innermost coffin Tutankhamun was buried with six collars, each with falcon heads at the ends, this amazing Usekh was found draped over the king’s thighs. A rainbow of colors: This broad collar has 11 main sections made of gold, as well as a counterweight or (mankhet). It is standard collar of tubular beads...
Amenhotep II, who reigned c. 1427–1401 B.C., strides through history as the son of an almost impossible act to follow. His father was Thutmose III, conqueror, empire-builder, and the very definition of the warrior-pharaoh. Amenhotep inherited not only a vast dominion, but a reputation already carved in stone. He was born into the Thutmosid line,...
This small wooden statue of King Senusret I was found in a private tomb. It consists of several pieces joined together with wooden pins. His body is muscular and his feet, attached to a rectangular base, are bare. The exposed skin is painted a dark reddish-brown. The sculpture is in excellent condition, and is almost...
The jackal-headed god Anubis figure is depicted striding on a high pedestal decorated with a palace facade. The deity is wearing a kilt and a vest decorated with a feather motif. He is adorned with a broad collar and bracelets as well as armlets on his upper arms. His two hands are extended slightly forward. The...
