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The "Famine Stele",although written in Ptolemaic times, tells of a seven-year famine during the reign of the Pharaoh Djozer (3rd Dynasty, 3rd mill. BCE). This is one of the more than 250 inscribed stones on Seheil Island, South of Assuan, Egypt.
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The "Famine Stele",although written in Ptolemaic times, tells of a seven-year fa...

Detail of the "Famine Stele" on Seheil Island, Egypt. Pharaoh Djozer (3rd Dynasty, 3rd mill. BCE) prays to the god Khnum, to end a seven-year drought and famine. The stele is one of more than 250 inscribed stones written during the Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BCE).
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Detail of the "Famine Stele" on Seheil Island, Egypt. Pharaoh Djozer (3rd Dyna...

Detail of the "Famine Stele" on Seheil Island, Egypt. Pharaoh Djozer (3rd Dynasty, 3rd mill. BCE) prays to the god Khnum to end the seven-year drought and famine. The stele is one of more than 250 inscribed stones written in the Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BCE).
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Detail of the "Famine Stele" on Seheil Island, Egypt. Pharaoh Djozer (3rd Dyna...

Chapel Tombs of the Nobles. Middle Kingdom (2040-1785 BCE), Assuan, Egypt.
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Chapel Tombs of the Nobles. Middle Kingdom (2040-178...

Farmers at work, ploughing. Painted relief from one of the Chapel Tombs of the Nobles, Middle Kingdom (2040-1785 BCE), Assuan, Egypt.
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Farmers at work, ploughing. Painted relief from one...

Falcon god Horus and Anubis, the jackal-headed god of the dead. Reliefs on the walls of the temple of Sobek and Horus (2nd BCE), Ptolemaic Period, Egypt.
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Falcon god Horus and Anubis, the jackal-headed god of the dead. Reliefs on...

Women giving birth on low stools. Relief from the outer corridor of the Temple of Sobek and Horus (3rd BCE), Ptolemaic Period, Egypt.
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Women giving birth on low stools. Relief from the outer co...

Detail of a pleated kilt. Relief from the outer corridor of the Temple of Sobek and Horus (2nd BCE), Ptolemaic Period, Egypt.
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Detail of a pleated kilt. Relief from the outer co...

The water of life is poured over a Pharaoh-Osiris, a dead Pharaoh. 13th BCE
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The water of life is poured over a Pharaoh-Osiris, a dead Pharaoh....

The Horus-falcon whose wings bring the breath of life (14th BCE).
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The Horus-falcon whose wings bring the breath of life (14th BCE).

The god Min, Egyptian ityphallic god of fertility and the harvest festival. He may be of African origin and is always shown with an erected phallus. 13th BCE
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The god Min, Egyptian ityphallic god of fertility and the harvest festival...

During the battle of Kadesh, the chariot of Pharaoh Ramses II (1304-1237) crushes his enemies. Ramesseum, Medinet Habu.
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During the battle of Kadesh, the chariot of Pharaoh Ramses II (13...