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Gold stater of Nectanebo II; Perfect Gold, or Fine Gold. One of the few coins minted for ancient Egypt is the gold stater, issued during the 30th Dynasty. The reverse of the gold stater shows a horse reared up on its hind legs. The obverse has the two hieroglyphs for nfr and nb: "Perfect gold", or a common-era term: 'Fine'-gold.
Egyptian finger and toe stalls are pieces of gold jewelry used in Ancient Egypt to protect digits during burial. Such stalls were used during the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, as well as other eras, and were thought to protect the deceased from both magical and physical dangers, such as damage which could occur during the mummification process. [1]
The Asyut Treasure is the name of an important Byzantine hoard of jewellery found near the city of Asyut, central Egypt.Discovered in mysterious circumstances in the early twentieth century, the treasure is now divided between the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin, the British Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum in New York City.
Archaeologists say a recent discovery could provide new insight into life in Egypt 3,000 years ago. An Egyptian-English mission from the University of Cambridge uncovered three gold rings and a ...
Detail from an advertisement for Ka-Bala in the late 1960s. Ka-Bala was a talking board game manufactured and released by Transogram in 1967. It was marketed under the slogan, "The Mysterious Game that Tells the Future." [1] The game was molded out of green plastic that glowed in the dark. It sat upon a hemispherical rocker, and was operated by ...
The museum houses major jewelry pieces and art acquisitions of the dynasty of Muhammad Ali and his descendants, who ruled Egypt for nearly 150 years from 1805 until the 1952 movement. The mother of Princess Fatima had completed the construction of the western wing before her death, when her daughter had reached the age of eighteen.
Gold indicated divinity due to its unnatural appearance and association with precious materials. [87] Furthermore, gold was regarded by the ancient Egyptians as "the flesh of the god". [90] Silver, referred to as "white gold" by the Egyptians, was likewise called "the bones of the god". [90] Red, orange and yellow were ambivalent colors.
The Bahamas has “firmly rejected” President-election Donald Trump's proposal to fly deported immigrants out of the U.S. and into the small island nation about 100 miles southeast of Florida ...