Images

Plaster inlaid with stone funerary mask from 3rd to 4th century CE. (Egyptian Museum, Castello Sforzesco, Milan)

Bronze statue of Isis, XXV Dynasty (775-653 BCE). (Egyptian Museum, Castello Sforzesco, Milan)

Plastered and painted linen burial shroud, 26th Dynasty. Egyptian Museum, Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy.

A mummified ibis bird from the Greco-Roman period. (Egyptian Museum, Castello Sforzesco, Milan)

Cloth-covered, plastered and painted wood anthropoid coffin of Tetet, 22nd-24th Dynasty. Egyptian Museum, Castello Sforzesco, Milan.

Plastered and painted funerary stele from the 7th-4th century BCE. Egyptian Museum, Castello Sforzesco, Milan.

Map of the Oxus' / Amu Darya's watershed in Central Asia, that drains parts of modern-day Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan into the Aral Sea.

The consonants of the ogham alphabet (non-IPA).

The vowels of the ogham alphabet (non-IPA). Note: This is the vertical writing of ogham. In the horizontal form, the right side would face downward.

Ogham writing on standing stone, seen on the right-hand side of the picture.