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Mosaic floor of Worcester College's chapel c.1791 CE depicting St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan.

Stained glass depicting St. Augustine in the Neogothic chapel of the Ursulines, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver, Belgium.

19th-century CE statue of St. Augustine by Antoine Etex in the church of La Madeleine, Paris.

Two symmetrical scenes of the king presenting pots of water or wine to Amun-Ra, "King of the Gods", from Bubastis (Tell Basta), reused in the temple of Bastet, Egypt 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep II, c, 1427-1400 BCE. During the Amarna...

This is right side of the Rosetta stone. We can recognize an English text carved on this side. The text reads "Captured in Egypt by the British Army in 1801". The Rosetta Stone is a large almost complete fragment of a grey-pink granodiorite...

This head comes from a colossal statue that showed the King fully wrapped with his arms fully crossed on the chest in the manner of the god Osiris. His hand held looped crosses, emblems of life (ankh). The missing head of the cobra on the...

This bust comes from a triad statue that showed King Amenhotep III flanked by the god Osiris and the goddess Hathor. It is one of the numerous statues that adorned Amenhotep III's mortuary temple at Thebes. Some 150 years later, when the...

This is a zoomed-in detail of the lower part of the Rosetta stone showing the Greek text. The Rosetta Stone is a large almost complete fragment of a grey-pink granodiorite stela. A decree was carved on this stela using 3 ancient texts in...

This is a zoomed-in detail of the middle part of the Rosetta stone showing the Demotic text. The Rosetta Stone is a large almost complete fragment of a grey-pink granodiorite stela. A decree was carved on this stela using 3 ancient texts...

This is a zoomed-in detail of the upper part of the Rosetta stone showing the hieroglyphic inscription. The Rosetta Stone is a large, mostly complete fragment of a grey-pink granodiorite stela. A decree was carved on this stela using 3 ancient...