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The Abbott Papyrus
This is a close-up image of the so-called "Abbott Papyrus". It was a hieratic legal record of an official inspection of certain tombs. The text contains an account of the official examination of Royal Tombs in the Theban Necropolis, after...
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Halfa Grass Rope from the Tomb of Seti I
The mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh Seti I (Sety, Sethi, or Sethos) was transported to Dier- el-Bahri in around 968 BCE. The tomb itself was discovered by Giovanni Belzoni in the 19th century CE. Belzoni found this rope hanging from a small...
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Shabti of Ramesses II
This wooden shabti (ushabti) of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II was remodeled and reused as an Osiris figurine in the 21st Dynasty, 1070-945 BCE. New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II, 1297-1213 BCE. From Egypt, precise provenance...
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Painted Wooden Canopic Jars
Each of the jars contains a shallow cavity too small to accommodate a package of wrapped viscera. The inscriptions associate Duamutef and Qebhsennuef with a falcon and a jackal respectively. 25th Dynasty, c. 700 BCE. From Egypt, precise provenance...
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Mummy Linen Inscribed with Portion of the Book of the Dead
Mummy wrapping of a man named Djedher, son of Sekhmetnefret, inscribed in hieratic with funerary texts from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. From Saqqara, Egypt, Late Period of ancient Egypt, 4th century BCE or later. The British Museum...
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Painted Funerary Cloth of Asetnefret
The dead woman, Asetnefret, seated at the right, sniffs a lotus flower while receiving a libation from her daughter, who holds the hands of her son Penpara. Clothes of this type were placed over the breast of the mummy or coffin. New Kingdom...
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Mummified Left Foot of a Child
The embalmers elaborately mummified this left foot of a child. The wrappings imitate protruding toes from a sandal. Roman Period, after 30 BCE. From Qurna, modern-day Egypt. (The British Museum, London).
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Viking Fleet
An artist's impression of a Viking fleet at sea. (From the PC game Total War: Thrones of Britannia by The Creative Assembly)
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Artist's Impression of Alfred the Great
An artist's impression of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, r. 871 - 899 CE. (From the PC game Total War: Thrones of Britannia by The Creative Assembly)
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Viking Raids in Britain
An artist's impression of what the Viking raids in Britain may have looked like from the late-8th to 11th century CE. (From the PC game Total War: Thrones of Britannia by The Creative Assembly)
