Bracelet of King Shoshenq II One of a pair of bracelets found around the wrist of king Shoshenq II.

 

Shrine of the Goddess Hathor.

 This shrine and the cow’s statue were retrieved from under heaps of debris south of the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari. The shrine is from the reign of Thutmose III. Its roof is painted blue with yellow stars to imitate the Vault of Heaven.

The statue of Hathor as the divine cow, in the middle of the shrine, is inscribed for Amenhotep II, Thutmose III’s son and successor. Hathor’s head is surmounted by a uraeus, a solar-disc, and two short plumes. Amenhotep can be seen twice in the statue: once at the front beneath the cow’s head, and a second time depicted as a young boy nursing beneath the cow’s right side.

New Kingdom, mid 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose III, ca. 1479-1425 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. 

Statue of Goddess Sekhmet Seated statue of the warrior goddess Sekhmet, with sundisk, a goddess of war and the destroyer of the enemies of the sun god Re in Egyptian mythology. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

Gold and the Gods: Jewels of Ancient Nubia.

Shawabty of King Taharqa.

 This is a shawabty belonging to King Taharqa.The figure wears a bulging bag (khat) headdress with uraeus and has a long beard. There are ten horizontal lines of incised unframed text on the front of body, it does not extend to the back of the figure. This mummiform shape does not have a back pillar or base. Here the hands are opposed resting on the chest.In each hand the figure holds a hoe and a cord to a small bag slung over each shoulder. The hoe on the right has a narrow blade and the one on left has a broad blade.

Linen and plaster mummy mask of a man, Ancient Egyptian, 18th dynasty, c1550-1295 BC. Wearing an elaborate collar and a heavy wig adorned with a lotus blossom. From the Royal Museum of Art & History, Brussels.

Stunning face hidden for thousands of years: Wooden sarcophagus is unearthed at Egyptian necropolis.

Sphinx Sculpture Uncovered in Egypt.

That a sandstone sphinx measuring about 15 inches tall was discovered during work to reduce groundwater levels at the pharaonic temple of Kom Ombo, which was constructed by Ptolemy VI in honor of the twin gods Sobek and Haroeris. According to Egypt's antiquities ministry, the statue was found in the same area of the temple where two sandstone reliefs of King Ptolemy V were previously unearthed. The sphinx is thought to date to the Ptolemaic era, between 305 and 30 B.C. For more on the Ptolemaic era in Egypt, go to “In the Time of the Rosetta Stone.”

THE SPHINX.

 

grandparents made their shoes from gold.