Egypt Museum

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Wife of Mentuhotep II

This upper part of a painted limestone statue depicting a woman in an elaborate wig, linen white dress, and honey yellow skin was discovered at Deir el-Bahari, within the remnants of the Temple of Mentuhotep II. It is more than likely she was a wife of the king. King Mentuhotep II is attributed with reunifying...

Ancient Egyptian Nobleman

This relief shows a beautiful, delicately carved depiction of an unknown Ancient Egyptian Nobleman, dating from the 19th or 20th Dynasty. It is believed that this fragment may have come from a tomb in Saqqara. With the lingering of the Amarna Period artistic revolution still in memory, the Egyptian need to forget the reign of...