A winter Coptic tunic made of wool, dating back to the sixth to eighth centuries AD. Black in color with colored decorative bands and units. There is embroidery on the collar of the tunic that says "Lord have mercy" in Coptic between two small crosses. Sometimes there were embroideries showing the name of the owner of the tunic and his social rank.The tunic is small in size, usually belonging to a child, and these tunics were worn by Coptic men, women and children, and were exported to all the peoples of the region along with other Coptic textiles that were famous for their elegance and quality.Overall size with arm covers is 126 x 92.5 cm. Displayed in Walters Museum Of Art in Baltimore,USA
Detail of the mummy case of Panehsy, a priest who flourished in Thebes under the early 22nd Dynasty during the Third Intermediate Period. It dates to circa 890 BCE.The case is made of cartonnage, which is fabricated from layers of linen or papyrus covered with plaster. The layers were flexible enough to be molded while wet against the surface of the mummified and wrapped body. Once dried, the plastered surface was brightly painted and inscribed, and/or gilded to form the innermost coffin of elite burials during that period.This Coffin is now in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities), Leiden, the Netherlands.
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Detail of a statue of the vizier "Kai" who probably flourished during the 5th Dynasty (cirac 2465-2323 BCE). This sculpture is made of painted limestone with inlaid eyes of rock crystal, calcite, and magnesite mounted in copper cells. Kai is depicted wearing a finely executed Nubian style wig.This statue is Displayed in Louvre Museum in Paris, France.
The Ministry of Antiques and Tourism Prevented the Dutch mission of the Leiden Museum from working in Saqqara for its support of the Afrocentric movement.
The Ancient Egyptians excelled in the art of architecture since the beginning of the civilization. Different forms of architecture emerged according to the need, religious, civil and military architecture, and till this day the Great Pyramid is evidence of the ingenuity and precision of the Egyptians in building and construction.The skill of the Egyptians in architecture led to the invention of construction equipment and tools that are still used today, such as sledge to pull huge stones, and measuring tools such as the cubit, angle, and horizontal and vertical plumb to adjust the locations and angles of building points with high accuracy.Construction tools from the Tomb of Sennedjem, tomb No. 1 in Deir El-Madina, dating back to the Nineteenth Dynasty (1295: 1186 BC) of the New Kingdom.Displayed in The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo, Egypt.
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"Al-Zahir Baybars" Mosque is considered the icon of Mamluk architecture in Egypt, and it is the third largest archaeological mosque in area after the Mosque of Toulon, and "Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah".The mosque restoration project began in 2007 and stopped in 2011 until work resumed in 2018. The development process included strengthening the foundations of the columns and the pulpit, restoring some areas of the mosque to reach the original shape of the monument, restoring its marble columns, and developing the iwans of the mosque (northeast and southwest) in addition to the entrances to the iwans. The methods used until the mosque was revived again in 2023
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