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From Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC This object was found in one of the largest graves in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, lying in the corner of a chamber above the right shoulder of a man. Its original function is not yet understood...

From Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC This is one of an almost identical pair discovered by Leonard Woolley in the 'Great Death Pit', one of the graves in the Royal Cemetery at Ur. The other is now in the University of Pennsylvania...

Fowling in the marshes, scene from the tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, Egypt, late 18th Dynasty, c. 1350 BCE. The British Museum, London. Nebamun is shown hunting birds, in a small boat with his wife Hatshepsut and their young daughter, in the...

The judgement of the dead in the presence of Osiris, from the Book of the Dead of Hunefer, from Thebes, Egypt, 19th Dynasty, c. 1275 BCE. The scene reads from left to right. To the left, Anubis brings Hunefer into the judgement area. Anubis...

From the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III, Thebes, Egypt 18th Dynasty, about 1350 BC Amenhotep III commissioned hundreds of sculptures for his mortuary temple on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, though the precise original location...

Tiye (c. 1398 BCE – 1338 BCE, also spelled Taia, Tiy and Tiyi) was the daughter of Yuya and Tjuyu (also spelled Thuyu). She became the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III.

The 10 Harappan alphabets/signs found at the Northern Gate of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization city of Dholavira. Each of these are up to 37 cm high and are thought to have been hung as a 'Banner' on the city gate.

This map depicts a possible location of the Land of Punt, together with travel routes from Egypt to Punt.

Late Bronze Age / Syrian, 16th century BC From Tell Atchana (ancient Alalakh), modern Turkey A statue of a king of Alalakh, covered with his biography in cuneiform This extraordinary statue represents Idrimi, a king of Alalakh. It...

Amorite, about 2400-2000 BC From the Middle Euphrates region, Syria This juglet, with its applied figurine, is pierced at the base and may have been a strainer. Alternatively it could have been used a sprinkler, by clamping a thumb over...