Ancient artefacts

egyptian artifacts | ... Authentic Ancient Egyptian artifacts Anubus canopic jar 1570 - 1085 BC

The ten statues in Founding Figures: Copper Sculpture from Ancient Mesopotamia, ca. 3300–2000 BC at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan were never meant for our eyes.

For over three hundred years, people in Europe -- particularly the Netherlands and Great Britain -- have been finding strange 12-sided objects in the

Bronze sword with an incised human face, linear and spiral designs on both sides of the hilt and blade. 400-200 BC

Read this introduction survey on ancient Egyptian jewelry and amulets by curator Dutch National Archaeological Museum in Leiden.

I have long been a fan of ancient art. I love the textures, the forms, the depth of history. I am sharing here a brief visual tour of a few examples, along with recent work inspired by these and other ancient forms... "DOGU", discovered in remains of Aomori. Jomon-era. BC.3,500 - BC.2,500. Aomori Japan. Female-effigy ceramic burial urn, Northern Andes, Columbia, South America, 1,000–1,500 AD. 23 x 40" in circumference Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey’s stunning Gobekli Tepe upends…

Egypt, Thebes 3rd Intermediate Period, late Dynasty 21 Gessoed and painted sycamore Cleveland Museum of Art This is one of the finest examples of painted wooden coffins made for the priests of Amen and their families at Thebes during Dynasty 21 and early 22. The pharaohs of this time were no longer buried in the Valley of the Kings, but instead built tombs in the Delta, far to the north, where they resided. Security was lax in the Theban necropolis. The coffins and funerary goods of the…

Black Colombia- Funeral Urn to hold the skeletal remains of their ancestors....

desimonewayland: “ Scarabs, second century BC, first century AD The Israel Museum, Jerusalem ”