Ägyptisches Totenbuch

Ancient Egyptian Mummy Mask

Wooden Statue, from Saqqara, Old Kingdom, Dynasty V

Statue of Thoth as an Ibis

The Mummy of King Seti I

Nefertiti.

Mummy of a hawk with naturistically modeled head, with painted details, wrapped in narrow bandages of fine linen, arranged in a herring-bone pattern, foot damaged. Roman Period, ca. 30 BC - 390 AD. From Saqqara. Excavated by: Walter B Emery. The Trustees of the British Museum.

Cairo Museum Royal Mummy Room.

Excavations at the necropolis at Saqqara. Photographed in 1860s during work of Auguste Mariette-Bey (1821-1881) French archaeologist and founder of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo in 1863, who began work at Saqqara in 1850.

The sarcophagus lid of Ibi The ancient Egyptian noble Ibi was the Chief Steward of the Divine Adoratrice of Amun, Nitocris I. Late Period, 26th Dynasty, reign of Psamtik I, ca. 664-610 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum of Turin.

Tomb of Setnakhte (KV14), Valley of the Kings, West Thebes.

Hathor chapel at the temple of Thutmose III. in Deir el-Bahari, photo from excavation by Henri Édouard Naville (1907).

Detail from a black granite statue depicting the god Amun protecting Tutankhamun. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun, ca. 1332-1323 BC. Now in the Louvre.

Nefertiti Bust, sculpture detail The Nefertiti Bust is a painted stucco-coated limestone bust of Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. The work is believed to have been crafted in 1345 B.C. by the sculptor Thutmose, because it was found in his workshop in Amarna. It is one of the most copied works of ancient Egypt.

Mummies of priests displayed in Giza Museum, 1894.

Statue of King Menkaure and Queen Khamerernebty II

Statue of a young Ramesses II wearing the blue crown, Khepresh, and holding the Heka sceptre. His son and the heir of the throne, Amon-her-khopesh-ef, is figured next to his leg. Egyptian Museum of Turin, 1930s

Detail of the Third Shrine from the Burial Chamber of the Tomb of TUTANKHAMUN. Carter 238. Egyptian Museum, Cairo ©Hans Ollermann