Egypt

There are 605 items in Egypt:

Wedjahor-Resne

Wedjahor-Resne (died c. 515 BCE): Egyptian admiral, instrumental to the Achaemenid conquest of Egypt. The naophorus of Wedjahor-Resne The following Egyptian inscription…

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Wen-Amun

Wen-Amun: Egyptian diplomat, famous for his misadventurous voyage to Byblos in the early eleventh century BCE. A king of the Twentieth Dynasty…

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Willemstad, Kurá Hulanda

Museum dedicated to the past of Curaçao's "black" population. There's a nice department of African art, a department to slavery, and a department that tries to document the rise of civilization, called "lands of Abraham". This last department has some…

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Zagreb, Arheoloski Muzej

Collection of Prehistoric, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Medieval objects. The numismatic collection is one of the largest in Europe. The most famous object is the wrapping of a mummy that is in fact an Etruscan linnen book with a religious…

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