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A joint Egyptian-Canadian archaeological team has identified the owner of ancient Theban Tomb, Kampp 23, located in the ...
But why did Akhenaten abandon Thebes, which had been the capital ... encouraged a startlingly different style of Egyptian art. Here he is shown with his wife, Nefertiti, and three daughters.
While traditional Egyptian art tends to emphasise the eternal ... shut up their houses and returned to the old capitals at Thebes and Memphis. His image and names were removed from monuments.
The painting, of the pharaoh Ramesses II (reign circa 1279 B.C. to 1213 B.C.), is in the tomb of an official named Nakhtamun, who was buried near Thebes (modern day Luxor). In the painting ...
A joint Egyptian-British archaeological mission discovered Thutmose II's tomb in the mount of Thebes area, west of Luxor and the renowned Valley of the Kings. The team and the Egyptian Ministry of ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol. 23, No. 2, Part 2: The Egyptian Expedition 1925-1927 (Feb., 1928), pp. 3-58 (56 pages) ...
Among the open exhibitions are Art of Ancient Mediterranean Gallery which features a coffin lid of Henet-Mer, from Thebes, Egypt, dated from the 21st Dynasty 1075-954 B.C. and a gallery by Newark ...
Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms. With the temples and palaces at Karnak and Luxor, and the necropolises of the Valley of the ...