Best Ancient Egyptian
Constructed during the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom around 2560 BCE, the Great Pyramid of Giza served as the tomb for Pharaoh Khufu. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the only one to remain largely intact today. The massive limestone and granite structure was th...
The Abu Simbel temples are two massive rock-cut monuments in southern Egypt, carved into a sandstone cliff during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II in the 13th century BC. The larger temple is dedicated to Ramesses II and the sun gods, while the smaller honors his chief queen, Nefertari, and the godd...
The Obelisk of Theodosius is an ancient Egyptian monument erected in the Hippodrome of Constantinople, now Sultanahmet Square in Istanbul. It was originally commissioned by Pharaoh Thutmose III for the temple complex at Karnak and bears hieroglyphic inscriptions celebrating his reign. Emperor Theodo...
The Bust of Ramesses II in the British Museum is an ancient Egyptian granite portrait fragment of the 19th Dynasty pharaoh (r. c. 1279–1213 BCE), acquired from the Ramesseum at Thebes in the 19th century.
The Bust of Akhenaten is an ancient Egyptian sandstone sculpture dating to the 18th Dynasty, currently housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It depicts Pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled from approximately 1353 to 1336 BCE and is known for abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism in...
The Sphinx of Tanis is a monumental pink granite sphinx from ancient Egypt, currently displayed in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The statue bears inscriptions of multiple pharaohs, including Amenemhat II of the 12th Dynasty and Ramesses II of the 19th Dynasty, reflecting the Egyptian practice of re-in...
This marble portrait bust, identified as Cleopatra VII, is part of the classical antiquities collection at the Altes Museum in Berlin. Dating to the mid-1st century BCE, it depicts the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt wearing a royal diadem and a distinctive melon-coiffure hairsty...
The Bust of Thutmose III at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a fragmentary ancient Egyptian portrait sculpture carved from quartzite. It depicts the pharaoh Thutmose III of the 18th Dynasty, who ruled from approximately 1479 to 1425 BCE and is renowned for his extensive military campaigns that expa...
Housed in the British Museum, the Bust of Amenhotep III is a sculpted portrait of the pharaoh who presided over ancient Egypt during a period of unprecedented imperial wealth and power in the 18th Dynasty. Ruling from approximately 1388 to 1351 BCE, Amenhotep III was a prolific builder, and this art...
The Luxor Obelisk is a 23-meter-tall ancient Egyptian monument situated at the center of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France. The obelisk, which dates back to the 13th century BC and originally stood at the entrance of the Luxor Temple, was gifted to France by Muhammad Ali of Egypt in 1829. It...
