Pharaoh Gallery

Nefertiti

Bust of Nefertiti (C.1370 BC C.1330 BC), chief consort of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. The original from Tell el Amarna, attributed to the sculptor Thutmose, is in Berlin's Neues Museum. The bust is one of the most copied works of ancient Egypt; both the British Museum, London, and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford have copies. Date: 14th Century B.C

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Painted ivory plaque from the lid of a coffer showing Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun in a garden

Painted ivory plaque from the lid of a coffer showing Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun in a garden, the lower frieze shows young women plucking mandrakes, from the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, discovered in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

© Robert Harding

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Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, in profile. Cleopatra VII Philopator was a pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt. She came from a Macedonian Greek family and is known for her beauty and her dramatic death, in which she killed herself using an asp (Egyptian cobra) to bite her on the breast. From a bound volume of "Chatterbox", edited by J Erskine Clarke and published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, London. Copies of a children's weekly magazine dated from 20 November 1886 to 5 November 1887

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