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This is the largest of three coffins found inside the sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun. The excavator Howard Carter wrote that after lifting off the heavy stone sarcophagus lid and peeling back two layers of linen wrappings, ‘a gasp of wonderment escaped…
These elaborate earrings were attached by tubes that passed through the king’s lobes. Both outer ends are closed by round disks of transparent quartz. The front faces show tiny portraits of the king and are decorated with two uraeus snakes. Multi-colour…
This fan was found in the Burial Chamber. Upon its discovery, a mass of debris of insect-eaten ostrich feathers were found with it. Although they could not be saved, there was enough left to show that there had been alternating brown and white feathers.…
This fancy perfume jar in the form of a crowned lion standing on a tall stool was found in the Annex. Howard Carter said it still contained perfumed ointment when found, ‘a dried blackened fatty substance’. The vessel is carved out of Egyptian alabaster…
This head, carved from a single block of wood, was found with the throat wrapped in a large piece of linen like a scarf around its neck. The lower part of the cow’s neck is painted black, while the upper neck, head and ears are covered in gold foil. Her…
This ivory headrest has a slim wide base with a central pillar shaped as a kneeling figure of god Shu (air) holding with upraised arms a gracefully curved head support. Flanking god Shu are two crouching lions representing the two guardians of the horiz…
Tutankhamun’s canopic shrine concealed this exquisite canopic chest. It is shaped like a ritual shrine with a sloping lid that was tied on with linen ropes, all sitting on a gold foil-covered wooden sledge. The chest contains four cylindrical hollows th…
This large carrying chest was found just inside the Treasury. The box is shaped like the pylon gateway walls that stand in front of Egyptian temples. It is fixed onto a gilded wooden sledge with long carrying poles. An impressive black and gold figure o…
Four miniature coffins elaborately crafted of solid gold with tiny inlays of red carnelian and coloured glass held Tutankhamun’s mummified viscera (lungs, liver, stomach and intestines). Each was wrapped in linen and placed upright inside one of four cy…
Discovered in the colonnade of King Thutmose I between the fourth and fifth pylons at the Great Temple of Amun and Karnak, this colossal dyad represents god Amun and his consort goddess Mut. It was found in pieces that were reassembled in 1998/1999. The…
Ramesses II raised over ten obelisks at Tanis (San el-Hagar) in the Eastern Delta. With a total height of 16 meters, this granite obelisk is the highest that ever stood at Tanis. On the four sides of the obelisk are inscriptions giving the Horus name, t…
Parts of this column were found during excavations at Heliopolis (Tell Hisn). It is formed of a high limestone stand, a sandstone base and a red granite shaft and abacus. Inscriptions on the column commemorate King Merenptah’s victory in a war he waged …
