Images

King Tang of Shang Dynasty as imagined by Song Dynasty painter Ma Lin. Hanging scroll, color on silk. Size 249.2 x 111.4 cm (height x width). Painting is located in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.

Oracle bone from the reign of King Wu Ding (late Shang dynasty).

A wooden coffin shaped in the form of a Nile bolti fish and containing the mummified remains of a fish. Dynasty XXX-XXXI, 4th century BCE. (Egytpian Museum, Turin)

Wooden figures of the Egyptian gods Anubis (jackal), Thoth (ibis), and Horus (falcon). Holes in their bases suggest they were carried on poles as standards for use during funeral processions. Ptolemaic Period, 3rd-2nd century BCE. (Egyptian...

A painted linen cartonnage face from an Egyptian female mummy. Third Intermediate Period of Egypt, 21st-22nd Dynasty, 1070-736 BCE. Egyptian Museum, Turin.

A diorite sculpture of pharoah Merenptah as the Divine Father and Priest of Bastet. Memphis, Dynasty XXV, 720-700 BCE. (Egytpian Museum, Turin)

The stucco and painted wood Stele of Neskhonsupakhered. The deceased wears a transparent robe and approaches the god Harakhty on his throne. Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty XXI-XXII, 1070-736 BCE. (Egyptian Museum, Turin)

A limestone statue of Pendua and his wife Nefertari. The couple embrace in an unsual depiction. Deir-el-Medina, New Kingdom, Dynasty XIX, 1292-1186 BCE. (Egyptian Museum, Turin)

A face of a woman fragment from an Egyptian coffin. New Kingdom of Egypt, 18th-20th Dynasty, 1550-1070 BCE. Egyptian Museum, Turin.

The limestone Pyramidion of Ramose, from the top of the tomb of the 'Necropolis Scribe'. Scenes on all four sides depict the worship of the sun and the solar cycle. From Deir-el-Demina, New Kingdom, XIX Dynasty, 1279-1213 BCE. (Egyptian Museum...