Pre-Dynastic Ivory & Bone Figures

Before Egypt’s first kings unified the Two Lands, local cultures along the Nile were already producing works of remarkable grace and imagination. The Predynastic Period (spanning roughly from 4500 to 3100 B.C.) was a time of experimentation and regional identity, when communities from Upper Egypt, particularly around Naqada, Abydos, and Hierakonpolis, evolved the symbols, rituals,...