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The National Museum held a vast collection with more than 20 million objects, one of the largest collections of natural history and anthropological artifacts in the world, encompassing some of the most important material records regarding natural science and anthropology in Brazil, as well as numerous items that came from other regions of the ...
The interior of the tomb The entrance to the tomb. The Tomb of the Reliefs (Italian: Tomba dei Rilievi) is an Etruscan tomb in the Banditaccia necropolis near Cerveteri, Italy. It was discovered in 1847 and has been dated to the end of the 4th century BC. [1] It is a unique example of an Etruscan tomb which is decorated with stucco reliefs ...
Palmyrene funerary reliefs are almost 4000 busts on decorative slabs closing burial niches inside underground tombs, produced in Palmyra over three centuries from the middle of the first century BC. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is the largest corpus of portrait sculpture in the Roman world outside Rome [ 3 ] and the largest collection of funerary ...
Relieved from its 3,000-year duty of guarding the door, a 6-foot-tall statue of King Tutankhamen, made of wood and covered in gold, also came from the tomb, photos from the museum show.
The relief, currently on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens [1] (NAMA 3624) was found in 1870 in the Kerameikos in Athens, which now houses a replica of it. Modern replicas of the burial monuments for Hegeso, daughter of Proxenios, and for Koroibos.
The tomb was partially discovered nearly 160 years ago but was lost in the sand until now. 4,400-year-old tomb — with a preserved mummy inside — unearthed in Egypt. Again
The buildings house the Musée de l'Armée, the museum of the Army of France, the Musée des Plans-Reliefs, and the Musée d'Histoire Contemporaine. The complex also includes the Cathedral of Saint-Louis-des-Invalides, the national cathedral of the French military.
The monument relief from the Tomb of the Haterii. One of the reliefs associated with the tomb consists of an elongated rectangular space showing a series of five buildings, identified by inscriptions, generally believed to represent public monuments on which the founding Quintus Haterius had worked. [20] The monuments are, from left to right: