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Antiquity


Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Imperial Roman Period, Ancient Middle East.



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Ancient Egypt

ANCIENT EGYPT

Ancient Greece

ANCIENT GREECE

Ancient Israel

ANCIENT ISRAEL

Ancient Jordan

ANCIENT JORDAN

Ancient Middle East

ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST

Imperial Roman Period

IMPERIAL ROMAN PERIOD

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Flying carpet. Mural on a house in a village of Upper Egypt. The subject may be legendary or tell of the owner's voyage to the Holy Places in Mecca. The flying carpet may stand for the plane by which the owner reached Mecca.
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Flying carpet. Mural on a house in a village of Upper Egypt. The subj...

A ritual fighting scene with a group of musicians. The subject may be legendary or tell an incident in the owner's voyage to the Holy Places in Mecca. Mural on a house in a village of Upper Egypt.
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A ritual fighting scene with a group of musicians. The subject may be legen...

Landscape on the Nile, Egypt.
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Landscape on the Nile, Egypt.

Landscape on the Nile, Egypt.
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Landscape on the Nile, Egypt.

North Gate (Propylon) and remains of the mudbrick enclosure wall of the temple of Dendera (4th-1st BCE), Egypt.
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North Gate (Propylon) and remains of the mudbrick enclosur...

The god Besh, usually shown as a dwarf: a domestic god, protector of women in childbirth, also associated with music and dance.
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The god Besh, usually shown as a dwarf: a domestic god, protecto...

The temple of Dendera (4th BCE-2nd CE). View towards the "Sanatorium", a place where pilgrims came to be cured, and the Roman Mammisi (background) erected by Emperor Trajan (53-117 CE) for the cult of the birth of the divine child of Amun and Hathor.
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The temple of Dendera (4th BCE-2nd CE). View towards the "Sanatorium", a plac...

The goddess Hathor,preceded by the god Ihy, her son. She wears a sceptre called "ouas".
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The goddess Hathor,preceded by the god Ihy, her son. She wears a sceptre called...

Head of a lion, sculpture at the walls of the Hathor Temple, Dendera, Egypt.
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Head of a lion, sculpture at the walls of the Hath...

Transverse Hall of the Osireion of the Temple of Abydos (14th BCE). Abydos was primarily a funerary site, used as a necropolis from prehistoric times. The entrance to the Underworld was thought to lie in a gap of the hills to the West.
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Transverse Hall of the Osireion of the Temple of Abydos (14th BCE). Abydo...

The inner Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple of Seti I (1303-1290 BCE) at Abydos, Egypt. 19th Dynasty, New Kingdom.
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The inner Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple of Seti I (1303-1290 BCE...

Pharaoh Seti I as Osiris, with insignia and typical pose with arms crossed. Relief from one of the chapels leading off from the inner Hypostyle Hall in the Temple of Abydos
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Pharaoh Seti I as Osiris, with insignia and typical pose with arms crossed....