Maps; Drawings; Architectural drawings; Cities & towns; Temples; Religious facilities; Funerary facilities; Tombs & sepulchral monuments; Monuments; Monuments & memorials; Valleys; Rivers; Bodies of water
On East Bank of Nile: Luxor: Temple of Amun-Mut-Khonsu; Karnak: Great Temple of Amun, Precinct of Amun, site of Temple of Amenhotep IV, Precinct of Mut. On West Bank of Nile: Deir el-Bahri: West Valley, East Valley, Western Thebes, Qurnet Murai:...
Architecture; Buildings; Religious facilities; Mosaics; Mosaic pavements; Floors; Fantasy; Leisure; Recreation; Hunting; Fishing; Landscapes (Representations); Islands; Plants; Trees; Shrubs; Bodies of water; Rivers; Bays (Bodies of water); Men;...
Now heavily restored; "This is the so-called Nile Mosaic, which dates from around 100 BC and shows a Hellenistic adaptation of an old Egyptian motif. It was probably copied in Praeneste from a prototype created in Alexandria." (Excerpt,...
From Hierakonpolis, Egypt. "In Predynastic times, Egypt was divided geographically and politically into Upper Egypt (the southern, upstream part of the Nile Valley), a narrow tract of grassland that encouraged hunting, and Lower (northern)...
Portrait of actress Greta Risley, wearing a cloth flower in her hair, off-the-shoulder dress, and long necklace. She performed at Macauley's Theatre in "The Wizard of the Nile," with Frank Daniels, in March 1897. Inscription on mount,...
Sculpture; Portraits; Men; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Upper class; Clothing & dress; Headdresses; Headgear; Snakes; Reptiles; Cobras; Power (Social sciences); Symbols; Gods; People associated with religion; Myths;...
Portrait bust. "Several statues portraying Antinous as Osiris share the same features. They represent the young Bithynian, who drowned in the Nile in 130 A.D., wearing a nemes, an Egyptian headdress made of starched cloth, decorated in front...
From Gizeh, Egypt, Dynasty IV. "The seated statue of Khafre is one of a series of similar statues carved for the pharaoh's valley temple near the Great Sphinx. The stone is diorite, an exceptionally hard dark stone brought some 400 miles down...
With the Middle Kingdom mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II at left; "If the most impressive monuments of the Old Kingdom are its pyramids, those of the New Kingdom are its grandiose temples, often built to honor pharaohs and queens, as well as...
