Akhenaton

Akhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV, was king of Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty and reigned from 1375 to 1358 B.C. Called the "religious revolutionary, " he is the earliest known creator of a new religion. The cult he founded broke with Egypt's traditional polytheism and focused its worship on a single deity, the sun god Aten.

Scarab Egyptian

Peer into the past and evoke the spirits of the Egyptian world with this beautiful Scarab Paperweight. The gold finish with color details will excite your mind and whisk you away back into history! Now you can bring all of Egypt's mysteries right into your own home or office.

Egyptian Cat

Sacred to the ancient Egyptians, cats were the special attribute of the goddess Bastet, the protectress of home, mothers, and children. Our reproduction is based on an original Egyptian sculpture from the Late Dynastic period (712–332 B.C.), now in the Museum's collection.

Akhenaton Egyptian King Statue

Enjoy all of ancient Egypt's mysteries right in your own home or office. This lovely gold finished Akhenaton statue will create an ambiance that will evoke the past and bring life to Egypt's amazing history.

Golden King Tutankhamun Hunting

Tutankhamun Hunting from His Tomb. The king is shown about to hurl his harpoon. The hunt in the marshes concerns mainly the triumph over evil, personified by the hippopotamus. The victorious king defeats the forces of chaos and preserves the universal order. Made from resin with hand painted gold leaf and color details, black base and measures

Ptah Creator of Heaven

Ptah Large Standing. This elegant statue of Ptah Standing was found in the Treasury, during the excavation of King Tut’s Tomb in 1922 by the Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter. God of Memphis, divine patron craftsmanship and the arts. He later assumed the position of god of the creation. He created by means of his heart and tongue, thus fashioning the world by the power of his word. His creative power was manifested in every heartbeat and in every sound. Made from resin with hand painted gold and color details, black base and measures
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Great Sphinx at Giza

In situ at Giza, Egypt,
2530 BC, compound stone, aged sand stone

Egyptian Cobra Pillar Candleholder

This Egyptian Cobra Pillar Candleholder and Aroma Burner is both decorative and functional. It has the beauty of Egyptian architecture as the column has relief carvings which evoke images of ancient temples and ceremonial halls. It also has three cobra snake heads which appear frequently in Egyptian art: as the uraeus worn in the front of the king's headdress representing the snake goddess Wadjet; as the goddess Renenutet, her name derived from the the Egyptian word "to nurse" and associated with the fertiity of the fields; as the snake goddess Meretseger, an object of a domesic cult providing protection for the kitchen. Pay tribute to all of these divine incarnations by lighting a candle or incense in this burner. Candlestick / burner is made from resin with stone and color details. Includes glass basin for oil and glass

Sandstone Bust of Nefertiti

Nefertiti means "the Beautiful one is Come". The German professor Borchardt found the original bust made of painted limestone in 1912 at Tel-El-Amarna (ancient Akhetaton) in what used to be the workshop of the sculptor Thutmes. Nefertiti was the daughter of a high dignitary in the Pharaoh’s court and the wife of King Akhenaten who ruled from 1379 to 1362 BC. . Her tomb has never been discovered. Nefertiti's bust was taken out of Egypt under unclear circumstances to be taken to Berlin. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Berlin (c. 1360 BC), this gallery quality reproduction is made from compound stone with a sandstone finish on a black marble base, 13"H.

Akhenaton bust

Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Dynasty 18th 1365 B.C. Akhenaton, originally named Amenhotep IV, ruled Egypt for 17 years (1367-1350 b.c.) together with his beautiful Queen Nefertiti. He was son of Amenhotep III. The priesthood of Amun at Thebes, enormously enriched by the tribute donated by the Pharoahs to the God, became the real power. Like his father before him, Akhenaton initially recognized the power of the Priests of Amun at Thebes but after the fifth year of his reign, he changed the state cult of Amun to that of Aten, the Unique God. He also assumed the name Akhenaton ("The Glory of the Aten"). This began two decades of religious reforms overthrowing millentia of traditional religious and civil life. Akhenaton erected a temple to the Sun God at Karnak. The Aten temple contained a peristyle court whose 28 pillars supported colossal statues of the King. This bust is what remains of one of them.

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Berlin, Germany: Altes Museum: mummy mask of a woman with bracelets in form of snakes (beginning of 1st century AD)

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Queen Nefertiti

Dahlem Museum, Berlin. 18th Dynasty 1365. Nefertiti means "the Beautiful one is Come". The bust of painted limestone was found by the German professor Borchardtt in 1912 at Tel-El-Amarna, ancient Akhetaton, which was the King's new capital in Middle Egypt in what used to be the workshop of the sculptor, Thutmes. Nefertiti was the daughter of a high dignitary of the Pharaoh's court. She was the wife of King Akhenaton who ruled from 1379 to 1362 b.c. She was an influential Queen but she is principally remembered for her personal beauty and the lovely statue that was carved centuries ago. Details of the life of the beauteous Queen are veiled by the mist of time. One of her six daughters was Ankhesenamun, Tutankhamun's wife. Her tomb has never been discovered. Nefertiti's bust was taken out of Egypt under unclear circumstances to be taken to Berlin.

Cleopatra - head

Antiken Museum, Berlin. 35 B.C. The last of the Macedonian rulers of Egypt, Cleopatra VII has been preserved in legend as a woman of formidable intellect and ambition who used her beauty and charm to advance Egypt's fortunes. In 51 B.C. she became joint ruler with her father Ptolemy XII and then with her brother and husband Ptolemy XIII. When he died in 47 B.C., her younger brother (also her husband) Ptolemy XIV succeeded him. When Ceasar came to Alexandria, Cleopatra persuaded him to support her cause and she regained her throne and jointly ruled with their son Caesarion from 36 B.C. After Caesar's death, she joined Mark Anthony hoping that he would help to restore Egypt to its past glory by using Rome's power. Mark Anthony gave Cleopatra much of Rome's eastern possessions but his Roman rival Octavian used this episode as a pretext to turn the Roman senate against Mark Anthony and begin a war against him & Cleopatra. Augustus Octavian defeated him at the battle of Actium. Anthony and Cleopatra withdrew to Alexandria where they committed suicide. Cleopatra was a remarkable woman and a formidable queen. She was the only Ptolemaic ruler to learn to speak Egyptian.

Queen Hatshepsut

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 18th Dynasty 1500 B.C Upon the death of her father, Tuthmosis I, Hatshepsut became sole legitimate heir. Tradition demanded however, that only a male heir could ascend the throne. Hatshepsut married her half-brother Tuthmosis II, who died prematurely. Once again it was a stepson, Tuthmosis III, born of a concubine, who was crowned. Serving first as a regent for the young king, Hatshepsut assumed the royal title in the second year and ruled egypt for two prosperous and relatively peaceful decades. This bust derives from one of the statues placed throughout her magnificent funerary temple at Keir el Bahri which was intended to both legitimize and commemorate her rule. The statue shows the great Queen in idealized masculine guise. Nevertheless, the prim little face and the delicate figure give a distinctly feminine impression.

King Tutankhamun

Egyptian Museum, Cairo Dynasty XVIII, 1347-1237 B.C. This marvelous mask of excellent workmanship protected the head of the mummy of Tutankhamun. Further protection was assured by a magic formula engraved on the shoulders and the back of the mask. The usual Nemes headdress knotted back at the nape of the neck, is a striped blue-green imitating lapis lazuli. The Uraeus and vulture head in gold inlaid with semi-precious stones and colored glass, ornaments the brow. The mask's eyes are made of obsidian and quartz with a touch of red at the corners: the cosmetic lines and the lids are of inlaid blue glass. The divine beard, plaited and turned up at the end, is of cloisonn' work (colored glass held in a framework of gold.) The wide necklace collar is formed of rows of lapis lazuli, quartz, amazonite and colored glass beads attached at each shoulder to a gold falcon's head ornamented with obsidian. This mask presents us with a beautiful albeit idealized portrait of the young King