Images Dated 2010 October

Mural from the wall of the tomb-chapel of Nebamun near Thebes Egypt dates to around 1350 - 1400 BC

Mural from the wall of the tomb-chapel of Nebamun near Thebes Egypt dates to around 1350 - 1400 BC. Painting shows Nebamun a little known nobleman hunting in the marshes of the Nile with daughter and wife

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Ancient, Birds And People, Chapel, Egypt, Egyptian, Mural, Nebamun, Tomb

A relief from the walls of the tomb of Rahotep at Maydum Egypt dating to 2600 BC

A relief from the walls of the tomb of Rahotep at Maydum Egypt dating to 2600 BC. This offering list for the dead was typical for tombs for important people. Each box in the list names an item in heiroglyphs

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Birds And People, Egypt, Heiropglyphs, Tomb

A scultured relief from the walls of the North West Palace in Nimrud the Assyrian

A scultured relief from the walls of the North West Palace in Nimrud the Assyrian capital in northern Iraq. The relef shows an attack on an enemy town with a vulture plucking at the body of a dead enemy dates to 865-860 BC

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Birds And People, Iraq, Nimrud, Relief, Sculture, Vulture