This diminutive yet evocative object, which the Met Museum has listed simply as “A Woman and Her Child“, hails from the very dawn of the Ancient Egyptian Dynastic Period, c. 3100–2900 B.C., known as the 1st Dynasty. Discovered at Abydos, one of Ancient Egypt’s most sacred sites and a focal point of royal and religious...
Human skeleton, likely dating from the 1st Dynasty, buried within a reed basket. Discovered at Tarkhan. This human skeleton of an adult was discovered in Tarkhan, laying in a fetus pose in a cane basket. Tarkhan is an ancient Egyptian necropolis located on the Nile’s west bank, approximately 50 km south of Cairo. Flinders Petrie...
This figure of a woman in a shawl is dated between 3100 -2700 B.C. She stands 13.5cm high, and is a finely carved from a piece of Hippopotamus ivory. Hippopotamus ivory is harder than elephant ivory and is much more difficult to carve. The woman depicted, with hair parted in the middle, stares forth with...
