Glass Inlay of Pharaoh Akhenaten, Egypt, New Kingdom, c 1353-36 BCE. Cast, then cold-worked to refine the sculptural quality of the portrait
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Statuette of a naked woman, maybe Ishtar. Necropolis of Hillah, near Babylon. 3rd c BCE-3rd c CE. Alabaster, gold, terracotta and rubies
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Harry Burton, Two 'guardian' statues standing on either side of the entrance to Tutankhamun’s Burial Chamber, 1922
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'Egyptian monuments, 1927'. Photograph from the Dutch National Archives
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Harry Burton, The unbroken seal on King Tutankhamun's tomb, 1922
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George Rinhart - Tourists on the top of the Great Pyramid, c. 1925
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Sleeping Antelope, Saharan Rock Art, Algeria, ca. 9000 BCE
Ram-Headed Deity Votive relief, Egyptian, Ptolemaic Dynasty, 305–30 B.C.
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Here's one--giraffes with solitary guard-- in a desert in Niger taken by Charter Weeks in 2002
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