Old European culture

Queen Hetepheres II sphinx – Cairo Museum.  This sphinx is contemporaneous with the Great Sphinx in Giza. And interestingly, it seems that t...

Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1352-1336 BC. Ceramic vessel in the form of a fish, with a narrow, flared-mouthed spout projec...

Decorative carved ivory with a cow suckling her calf and licking its tail among (very stylised) papyrus flowers. Neo-Assyrian, 9th-7th c. BC...

This is a drawing of an Ancient Egyptian papyrus boat.  And a papyrus plant.  The papyrus plant grows wild in Egypt in the marshes along the...

Ceramic vase - Naqada II, Egyptian Predynastic period 3500 BC. Dim 8,5x7,6 cm. Currently in: Museo Arqueologico Nacional, Madrid, Spain... O...