One of the treasures of King Tutankhamun, Archeological Museum, Cairo, Egypt.

During ancient Egypt, the golden throne was a symbol of power and used to reveal social status. This gorgeous piece of furniture is the most exquisite of all ancient thrones. It was gold and silver in colour with an image in the centre of the throne showing Tutankhamun and his wife connected with the arms of Aten in and Amarna art style.

Tutankhamun - his tomb.

Tutankhamun - his tomb and his treasures A sensational discovery 87 years ago turned the unknown pharaoh Tutankhamun into a superstar. In 1922, the archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the burial chambers of the ancient Egyptian king with their vast treasures.

Man fears time, but time fears the pyramids.

Ramses II obelisk.

The only obelisk standing at the entrance to the Temple of Luxor; his brother was taken to Paris in 1834. Erected x Ramses II

God Horus Protecting King Nectanebo II.

God Horus Protecting King Nectanebo IINectanebo II was the last native king of Egypt. Caught in a delicate balance between the naval power of the Greeks and the Persian empire, and dependent on Greek mercenaries, he managed to defeat the Persians once, but on their second invasion in 343 B.C., he was forced to flee, perhaps to Nubia. Despite this, he was much honoured by his Hellenistic successors, particularly Alexander the Great, and cults were established to worship him in the Ptolemaic Period. Despite the difficult and uncertain times, Nectanebo II’s reign was marked by an artistic and literary revival. This figure of the king, dominated by the massive falcon wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, is a continued expression of the protection of the king by the god Horus.

Hor Awibre (also known as Hor I) was an Egyptian pharaoh.

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Hor Awibre (also known as Hor I) was an Egyptian pharaoh during the Second Intermediate Period. He is mentioned on the Turin canon, a king list compiled in the early Ramesside period. The papyrus is fragmentary in this section and gives him seven months of rule and this would have happened around the year 1760 BC. This corresponds very well to the archaeological remains since he didn’t have time to build a tomb of his own, and was buried in an old minor one. His fame comes from the lucky find of this very tomb placed just beside the pyramid of Amnemhet III at Dahshur. Although the tomb had been pillaged in antiquity, it still contained a naos with a rare life-size wooden statue of the Ka of the king.

The statue was covered with a fine layer of painted stucco. The king is sculpted wearing a three-part long wig, leaving the ears exposed. He wears a long, curved divine beard. It is noteworthy that the sculptor successfully modelled the inlaid eyes to lend a lifelike appearance to this expressive face. The eyes are inlaid with rock crystal and quartz. This statue is one of the best-preserved and most accomplished wooden statues to survive from antiquity.

The tomb also contained the partly gilded rotten wooden coffin of the king. The mummy of the king had been ransacked for his jewellery and only Hor’s skeleton was left in his coffin. The king was determined to have been in his forties at the time of his death.

Cleopatra is one of the most well-known monarchs of the ancient world. Most people know of her but not much about her, so who was this enigmatic woman who stole the heart of not one, but two of the ancient world’s most important men?

Family

Cleopatra was born in 69 BC in Alexandria to Ptolemy XII and most probably Cleopatra V. She was a direct descendant of Ptolemy I, one of.Alexander the Great’s generals and ruler of Egypt after the sudden death of Alexander in 323 BC. Therefore Cleopatra was not Egyptian but Macedonian, a fact many people do not know or choose to forget. She was one of six children, her siblings were Cleopatra VI, Berenice IV, Arsinoe IV, Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV, both her younger brothers, Ptolemy XIII and XIV, she later married. She herself gave birth to 4 children, fathered by two (very powerful) men.

Psusennes I.

Psusennes I was a Pharaoh of the 21st dynasty, he lived during 1047. He was the last Pharaoh of Egypt in true sense. People had high regards for him. He ruled his part of the kingdom longer than any other Pharaoh had done.

His tomb was found intact and there were no signs of a breach into the tomb. Many robbers had dug up the adjacent graves lying in the neighbourhood but never touched Psusennes I tomb.

He was placed in a silver casket instead of golden, which is unusual, and he became known as The Silver Pharaoh.

Montuhotep II.

Montuhotep II, a king who was revered as the ruler who reunited Egypt after the First Intermediate Period. He builds a temple for himself on the Westbank of the Nile at Deir el-Bahri (which is now mostly known for the temple of Queen Hatshepsut). We see the king with the white crown of Upper Egypt. His name can be read in the cartouche in front of his face: mn-tw-htp Montuhotep.

A fine miniature gold statuette of Heryshef wearing the Atef crown .

which now resides in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Heryshef was a Ram-god who was prominent in Middle Egypt at ancient Hines (modern Ihnasya el-Medina) on the west bank of the Nile. His cult apparently existed at this location as early as the 1st Dynasty of the Old Kingdom

Iconographical representations of the god were usually as a long-horned ram or ram-headed man. His name literally means, “he who is upon his lake”, and it has been suggested that he was a creator god who emerged from the waters of the first primaeval lake. Unfortunately, inscriptional evidence of this god is scant, so his exact nature is unclear.

He was identified with Ra and Osiris in Egyptian mythology, as well as Dionysus or Heracles in Greek mythology. The identification with Heracles may be related to the fact that in later times his name was sometimes reanalysed as Ḥry-šf.t "He who is over strength".