Relief depicting Ihy, son of Hathor and Horus. Temple of Hathor at Dendera.

Starry ceiling of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera. The Temple of Hathor is the dominant structure in the Dendera Temple complex. It is apparent that, like other Temple Complexes in Egypt, the temples at Dendera were constantly under construction. Evidence suggests, work at

Temple of Hathor, Dendera.

Detail of a relief depicting goddess Neith, Temple of Kom Ombo

Detail of the coffin of Amenemipet, c. 950-900 B.C. From Deir el-Bahari. Now at the British Museum. EA22941 ▫ In this scene, a woman wearing a perfume cone (possibly a relative of Amenemipet) is seen offering tribute before the uraeus who delivers life through an ankh. The

Village elders compelled to confess discrepancies in their Tax Declarations before the Scribes Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, reign of Teti, c. 2323-2291 B.C. Tomb of Mereruka, Saqqara Necropolis ▫️Punishment for tax debt in Ancient Egypt was a public spectacle of shame and

Ra-Horakhty and Hathor, depicted at the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, c. 54 B.C. – 100 A.D. “Ra-Horakhty, great god, lord of the sky, who gives life” & “Hathor, great one, lady of Dendera, eye of Ra, queen of the gods”. egypt-museum.com/the-dendera-zo…

“... As my heart is sweetened Over the king's wife, over her children, That old age be granted to the great king's wife Neferneferuaten Nefertiti granted life eternally, In this million years, While she is under the hand of Pharaoh, May he live, prosper and be well, And old age

Osiride Amenemipet, c. 950-900 B.C. ▫️In this scene, we witness the deceased resurrected in his Osiride form. Behind him (far left) stands Nephthys, recognisable from the basket-and-house hieroglyph (Nebet-Het: “Lady of the Mansion”) that sits upon her head. Her protective arm

Granite statue of the warrior goddess Sekhmet, wearing sun-disc and holding a lotus-sceptre, lower section and part of right arm damaged. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1550-1292 BC. From Thebes. Now in the British Museum. EA49

Queen #Hatshepsut kneels before Amun-Re to receive a blessing, Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak.

Bust of king Akhenaten (painted limestone with traces of gilding), c. 1351–1334 B.C. From Amarna, House P 47.2 (Workshop of Thutmose) Neues Museum, Berlin. ÄM 21360 ▫️While looking at this bust of Akhenaten, one's mind goes straight to thinking of the bust of Akhenaten's

Vignette from the funerary papyrus of the scribe Djehutymes In ancient Egypt, jackals and dogs were very common in the land between desert and urban areas, so they were associated with the world of necropolis and the dead. Specifically, their wandering among the tombs was

A carpenter at work on a scaffolding The image depicts a carpenter sitting on a piece of scaffolding or a workbench, using an adze (a tool similar to an axe) to shape wood. Unlike the more common representations of gods, kings, or idealized figures in ancient Egyptian art, this

Limestone statue of Demedji and his wife, Hennutsen Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, reign of Neferirkare or earlier, c. 2465–2438 B.C. From either Memphite Region, Giza or Saqqara. Now at the Met Museum via the Rogers Fund, 1951. 51.37 ▫ Demedji was an Official during Egypt’s Old

King Horemheb stood beside the enthroned god Amun ▫ Carved from pale limestone and towering just over two metres high (Egyptian Museum, Turin, Cat. 768), this late-18th-Dynasty group statue from Thebes presents king Horemheb standing deferentially beside the enthroned god Amun.

The celebrated bust of Nefertiti, c. 1351–1334 B.C. ▫️Fashioned from fine limestone and overlaid with delicately modelled stucco, the portrait still retains its original polychrome paintwork, with inlays of quartz and touches of wax heightening the queen’s luminous complexion.