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  2. Art of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egyptian art refers to art produced in ancient Egypt between the 6th millennium BC and the 4th century AD, spanning from Prehistoric Egypt until the Christianization of Roman Egypt. It includes paintings, sculptures, drawings on papyrus, faience, jewelry, ivories, architecture, and other art media. It was a conservative tradition whose ...

  3. List of museums of Egyptian antiquities - Wikipedia

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    Museum of Ancient Orient, Istanbul, Turkey; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [81] Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA [82] The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey, USA [83] Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA

  4. List of Egyptian artists - Wikipedia

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    Daria Gamsaragan (1907–1986), Egyptian-born Armenian sculptor, novelist; Hussein El Gebaly (1934–2014), painter; Habib Gorgi (1892–1965), landscape painter; Sherin Guirguis (born 1974), contemporary artist

  5. Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre - Wikipedia

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    Middle Kingdom art, "known for its gold work and statues", moved from realism to idealization; this is exemplified by the schist statue of Amenemhatankh and the wooden Offering Bearer. The New Kingdom and Coptic Egyptian sections are deep, but the statue of the goddess Nephthys and the limestone depiction of the goddess Hathor demonstrate New ...

  6. Scarab (artifact) - Wikipedia

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    The Egyptian god Khepri was believed to roll the sun across the sky each day at daybreak. In a similar fashion, some beetles of the family Scarabaeidae use their legs to roll dung into balls. Ancient Egyptians believed this action was symbolic of the sun's east to west journey across the sky. [9]

  7. Fayum mummy portraits - Wikipedia

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    Combining Egyptian and Greek pictorial forms or motifs was not restricted to funerary art, however: the public and highly visible portraits of Ptolemaic dynasts and Roman emperors grafted iconography developed for a ruler's Greek or Roman images onto Egyptian statues in the dress and posture of Egyptian kings and queens.

  8. Excavation in Egyptian necropolis uncovers 63 ancient tombs ...

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    The excavation site, known as Tal al-Deir, is referred to as a necropolis, the term used for an elaborate cemetery of an ancient city.The cemetery was especially important during the 26th Dynasty ...

  9. Category:Art of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Egyptian art by type (3 C) Egyptian artefact types (10 C, 48 P) Ancient Egyptian artists (3 C, 2 P) E. Egyptological collections (11 C, 18 P) P.

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