The Edwin Smith #Papyrus is the world's #oldest surviving surgical document written in hieratic script in #ancient #Egypt around 1600 BCE. Plate 6 and 7 of the papyrus, pictured here, discuss facial trauma.

#Tutankhamun's Sandals for Eternity✨ ▫ Not all of Tutankhamun’s footwear was meant for mortal steps. Among the most hauntingly beautiful pieces found upon his mummy were the sheet gold sandals, accompanied by delicate finger and toe stalls, each hammered from thin sheets of

Egypt Museum ...With the right tools, vida, spirit, and geology, will reign.... Karst, the human nest and the foundations of Egypt 🏞️✨

The Golden Throne of Queen Hetepheres, consort of Pharaoh Snefru and mother of Pharaoh Khufu, dates to Egypt’s 4th Dynasty (2551–2528 BC). Discovered in Giza, in tomb G 7000 X, this masterpiece stands as one of the Old Kingdom’s most refined royal artifacts. Hetepheres’ son Khufu

In 2017, a team of archaeologists excavating the megalithic tomb (3000 BC) of Montelirio tholos (Spain) uncovered an extraordinary dagger formed from rock crystal. Experts say it's most technically sophisticated ever to be uncovered in Prehistoric Iberia and would have taken

The Spell Upon the Golden Mask of Tutankhamun, c. 1323 B.C. ✨ ▫ Beneath the gleam of gold and lapis, the mask of #Tutankhamun whispers an ancient spell; one far older than the Boy King himself. Its words were carved half a millennium before his birth, drawn from Chapter 151

Around 3,179 years ago this month, history witnessed its first recorded labor strike. Known as the “Strike Papyrus”, it documents how workers building the tomb of Ramesses III walked off the job over wages and working conditions in November 1155 BC.

This is the last known photo of Old West legend Doc Holliday, a man whose life reads like a gripping novel full of grit, gunfire, and haunted shadows. In this rare and silent portrait, you sense the final act of a figure who was as feared as he was fascinating. Holliday, the

🥰Merit - and her wig - in a detail from the funerary papyrus shared with husband Kha, now in Turin's Museo Egizio at: collezioni.museoegizio.it/en-GB/material…

Tutankhamun's treasures never lose their power to amaze! 📸 me Grand Egyptian Museum

The portrait of the two brothers, dating to approximately 140 AD in Roman Egypt, a stunning example of the famous Fayum mummy portraits. These lifelike paintings represent a unique cultural fusion where the ancient Egyptian tradition of mummification was combined with the

When the lights are low, the stories speak the loudest! 📸 me Grand Egyptian Museum #GEM

Name of Alexander the Great in Egyptian hieroglyphs (written from right to left), 332 BC, Egypt ..... In 332 BC, Alexander the Great conquered Egypt and became pharaoh. This was the beginning of the Hellenistic Period of Egyptian history.  Egyptians saw him as the person who

Hey @Gucci, just a friendly reminder that your "innovative" design was already vintage in the Old Kingdom! 📸 me Egyptian Museum in Cairo

The Dogon people are an ethnic group in Africa who traditionally specialize in astronomy. 🇲🇱

Not one but two Grand pianos being played with ease by Hazel Scott, 1943.

On #Caturday, a divine depiction labelled with the onomatopoeic name "Miw(.ty)" - "the (double) Cat" in the Underworld book depictions at the Osireion. Reign of Merenptah, c. 1200 BCE. 📸 by me, last week #Egypt #Egyptology #ancientegypt #hieroglyphs

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