The statue of the Egyptian scribe or writer sitting cross - legged goes back to the beginning of the fifth dynasty, and is one of the original piec ...

Hathor was often depicted as a cow, symbolizing her maternal and celestial aspect, although her most common form was a woman wearing a headdress o ...

Hunting chest of Tut , the chest of king Tutankhamun

with semi- circular arched cover decorated with hunting

and war scenes of the king ...

A folding chair of king Tutankhamun decorated with floral motifs in black and gold

Male priests were known as hem-netjer and females as hemet-netjer (servants of the god). There was a hierarchy in the priesthood from the high pr ...

Queen Nefertiti, whose name means "the beautiful one," is the wife of King (Amenhotep IV) who later became Akhenaten, the famou ...

The Goddess Bastet , represented by a cat, was worshiped by the ancient Egyptians. Bastet was considered the goddess of love, fun , pleasure, and j ...