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A Carthaginian silver coin, depicting Nike above a horse and a palm tree, minted in Carthage, 5th-4th century BCE. The British Museum, London.

This small limestone false door comes from the mastaba-tomb of the Superintendent of the Hairdressers of the Palace Niankhre. On the rectangular panel at the top, the dead man sits before a table of offerings. The central door-niche is inscribed...

The gilded wooden statuette represents the "Ba" of Neswy perching on the top of the stela. The painted scenes below, from top to bottom: the winged sun-disc flanked by goddesses Nekhbet and Wadjet as serpents, and by jackals representing...

From Abydos, Egypt. 19th to 20th Dynasties, circa 1295-1070 BCE. (The British Museum, London)

Painted wooden shabti box of of the priest of Amun Amenhotep containing blue faience shabtis. There are 6 columns of Hieroglyphic inscription on one side. From Thebes, Egypt. 21st Dynasty, 1070-945 BCE. (The British Museum, London)

A painted limestone stela where the deceased offers flowers to Osiris. Below, offerings are made to a couple named Huy and Henutnofret by four members of their family. From Egypt. 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, circa 1390-1352 BCE...

The surface of this black granite offering table is carved in relief with images of food and drink offerings. From Egypt. 12th or 13th Dynasty, circa 1985-1750 BCE. (The British Museum, London)

This unidentified man was wrapped in a painted and inscribed shroud and provided with small amulets of gilded wood, threaded on a frame. From Egypt. Roman Period, after 30 BCE. (The British Museum, London)

The finely carved inscription on this obelisk dates to the 4th century BCE. The obelisk was set up in a cemetery at the Phoenician colony of Kition in Cyprus by a certain Arish in memory of his parent; his father Parz, who is said to have...

This limestone monument was set up in a cemetery in Carthage, in memory of a man called Gemellus. The inscription towards the base is written in Phoenician, the native language of ancient Carthage, often known as Punic, and states "This tombstone...