Images

Men preparing ducks for cooking or preserving, wall painting from the tomb of Nakht, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1550-1295 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Baskets of spices and condiments, including tarragon, cumin and lard, from the tomb of Kha, Deir el-Medina, Egypt, c. 1425-1353 BCE. Museo Egizio, Turin.

Preparing and cooking cakes, tempera on paper by Nina de Garis Davies after the original wall painting from the tomb of Rekhmire, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1504-1425 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Wooden model of brewers at work, Tomb of Meketre, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1981–1975 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Bakers from Meketre's model bakery and brewery, Tomb of Meketre, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1981-1975 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Tomb painting representing the pool in Nebamun's estate garden, Tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1400 BCE. The British Museum, London.

Painting from the tomb of Menna, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1422-1411 BCE.

Painting of winemaking, tempera on paper by Charles K. Wilkinson, after the original from the tomb of Ipuy, Deir el-Medina, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1279-1213 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Portrait of General Nathanael Greene, copy of mezzotint by Valentine Green, executed by J. Brown after Charles Willson Peale, 1785. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

A March 1942 photograph of a 'Quad' artillery tractor pulling a 25-pdr artillery gun, British Eighth Army, during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45). (Imperial War Museums)