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The constructional details of this case are not fully visible, but the materials used included linen and plant fibers. A painted bed-net on a pink background imitates the garment often shown worn by Osiris...

This case is made from mud mixed with straw or chaff, with an outer skin of textile and an inner coating of plaster. The decoration is traditional Egyptian style, the surface is painted to represent a bead-net...

The case is reconstructed from reused pieces of papyrus on which traces of writings are still visible. The plaster exterior surface represents the dead woman dressed in a pink undertunic, a 2nd tunic which...

This fine decorated pottery takes its name from the modern name of Tell Atchana, Alalakh. It was defined by the excavator Sir L. Woolley as a locally produced variant of the so-called "Nuzi Ware", a similarly fine...

An artist's impression of a scene of Roman Government.

This is a diary of astronomical and meteorological phenomena observed during the 2nd month of the years 323-322 BCE. Written in cuneiform inscription, it records the death of Alexander on the 29th day of the lunar...

Written in Babylonian in the cuneiform inscription, this tablet lists the names and dates of several Seleucid kings. After Alexander's death, the Persian Empire fractured. Mesopotamia and Syria became part of the...

Babylonian astronomical diaries recorded daily observation of the moon and planets from around the 7th century BCE onward. The diaries for 164-163 BCE contain observations of Halley's comet at its 1st and last...

This tablet is written in cuneiform inscription and refers to the defeat of the Seleucid king Demetrius II Nicator by the Parthian ruler Mithradates I in 141 BCE. The Parthian ruler is referred to as...

Fragment of a linen mummy shroud with texts from the Book of the Dead, written in ink. From Thebes, Egypt. 18th Dynasty, circa 1500 BCE.