Mohenjo-Daro's Mystified Maps

04/16/2024

Apoyando ladrillos 🧱 para la Esfinge durante la Segunda guerra Mundial.

04/15/2024

Model of ancient Egyptian soldiers

Middle Kingdom, 11th Dynasty, around 2000 BC.
From the tomb of Mesehti in Asyut.
Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 30986
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04/15/2024

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Goddess and the embodiment of the Nile in Egyptian legends in Elephantine at the beginning of the nile journey in the Egyptian lands!

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04/15/2024

In Hierapolis, Turkey, an ancient Roman tomb is gradually being concealed by calcium carbonate deposits.

Hierapolis is renowned for its thermal spas and became part of the Roman Empire around 133 BC when King Attalus III of Pergamon bequeathed his kingdom to Rome upon his death.

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04/11/2024

Lupanar (Brothel) Sign, Pompeii :

In Pompeii; Pen*ses can be found not only as graffiti roughly drawn and carved onto public walls, but built into the roads as well.

It is guessed that ph***ic symbols on the streets point towards nearest brothel, to direct foreign sailors who may be heavily intoxicated and/or unable to speak the local language.

04/11/2024

Golden Sandals of Tutankhamun

A pair of golden sandals of Tutankhamun found on his feet. These stunning gold sandals were just one of 42 pairs King Tutankhamun had in his tomb. Too many ointments poured on Tutankhamun’s mummy caused severe damage to the tissues, except for those protected by gold: the face, fingers, and toes.

New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, ca. 1332-1323 BC.
Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 60678/60679

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04/11/2024

Alexandria was among the largest and most magnificent cities in antiquity

Before the foundation of Alexandria in 331 BC, the city knew glorious times as the obligatory port of entry to Egypt for all ships coming from the Greek world.

Due to a combination of natural phenomena, including a series of earthquakes and tidal waves, the Portus Magnus and parts of the city’s ancient coastline sank beneath the sea.

In 1992, the IEASM began underwater explorations under the supervision of Franck Goddio and in cooperation with the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. The zone of research covers the current eastern port, which measures approximately 400 hectares in area. The archaeological campaigns have made it possible to develop, for the first time, a complete panorama of the famous Portus Magnus.

photo: Christoph Gerigk

04/11/2024

سوار الملك رمسيس الثاني

‏- ذهب مرصع باللازورد
‏- المتحف القومي للحضارة المصرية

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04/10/2024

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04/10/2024

Statue of wife of Nakhtmin

New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, ca. 1353-1292 BC.
Sharm El Sheikh Museum. CG 779B

The statue of the wife of Nakhtmin is one of the most elegantly sculptured women figures from ancient Egypt. She is depicted wearing a transparent garment of fine, pleated linen and a wig with a band of petals with a blooming lotus flower in the center.

In her left hand she holds a menat necklace, which is associated with the goddess Hathor. On the back in hieroglyphs the titles of her husband general Nakhtmin are engraved as it was originally a statue of the couple.

Nakhtmin was a royal scribe and army general under Tutankhamun and his successor Ay. Nakhtmin was heir apparent, and possibly the son of Ay, but was supplanted by Horemheb, who may have had his statue destroyed.

The statue with the inscription has suffered extensive damage. Only two pieces remain, the head and shoulders of Nakhtmin and the upper part of the body and head of his wife.

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04/10/2024

04/10/2024

In Japan you can find centuries-old stones near coasts inscribed with a warning: “Do not build any homes below this point. High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants. Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis.” These are the Tsunami Stones.

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04/09/2024

Gold scarab
Middle Kingdom, c. 1980–1801 B.C.
Cleveland Museum of Art. 1914.748

04/09/2024

Ramses II (1303a.c.-1213a.c.) was the last great Pharaoh of Egypt, he lived to be 90 years old, had 152 offspring, was red-haired and measured 190cm when he was alive.

04/09/2024

Detail of the chest of the sarcophagus of the Vizier Gemenefherbak, protected by a winged scarab, a personification of the reborn morning sun.

Made of graywacke. Late Period, 26th Dynasty, ca. 664-525 BC.
Now in the Egyptian Museum of Turin. Cat. 2201

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04/09/2024

A wooden netsuke of a raconteur, made by Ōhara Mitsuhiro (1810-1875 CE). From Japan

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04/08/2024

An Egyptian Flower Girl
Oil on canvas, Frederick Goodall (1822-1904).

04/08/2024

Nefertiti, the Influential Wife of Akhenaten

04/08/2024

Phoenician Necklace (550 BC), consisting of eight gold beads decorated with filigree
and granulation, five plain gold beads, sixteen gold spacer-rings, fourteen green spotted glass beads, and a hollow glass pendant in form of a bearded head with a gold cap.

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04/08/2024

The ‘Na’layn’ — Blessed sandals of the Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) ♥️💐

صَلَّی اللہُ عَلَیہِ وَآلہ وَسَلّم ♡
مجھے عشق ہے سیدیﷺ سے.❤📿

04/07/2024

Virtual Tour (360 photo) Tomb of Ramses VI

04/07/2024

Double Cartouche Perfume Box of Tutankhamun

This double cartouche shaped perfume box is gilded and inlaid with colored glass paste. The sides of the box feature a relief of Heh, god of eternity holding above and around his head the cartouches of the king.

Tutankhamun as the young Horus squatting upon the hb-sign, with solar disc above his head. Embossed on gold and inlaid with lapis blue glass, turquoise blue glass, jasper red glass, lapis lazuli and carnelian.

From the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 61496

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04/07/2024

The piercing gaze of ancient Greeks sculptures. About 2000 years old.

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04/06/2024

The oldest door still in use in Pantheon, Rome - Italy.

Cast in bronze for emperor Hadrian"s rebuilding, dated about 115 AD.

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04/06/2024

Offering stelae for sisters, Keti & Senet
Middle Kingdom, 11th-12th Dynasty, c. 2061–1900 B.C.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Ägyptische Sammlung, INV 95

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04/05/2024

Hephaistion"s signature (

04/04/2024

One of the three Roman pools of Gafsa, in Tunisia, two of which are open. Built in the 2nd century BCE, they are about five meters deep and are fed by hot water springs

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04/04/2024

Temple of Poseidon; built in 5th Century BC, in typical Greek hexastyle; featuring six doric columns on front portico; located at Cape Sounion, Greece. It is perched on edge of a cliff, located 70m above sea.

At present 16 out of original 38 columns are still standing today, and they were 20ft tall.

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04/04/2024

The Eye of Horus adorns the Bracelet of King Sheshenq II!

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- Gold, Lapis Lazuli, Agate
- Tanis, 1939 AD by Pierre Montet
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo

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04/04/2024

Head of a dancer, wool textile, 4th–5th century, Musée du Louvre, Paris.