The Old Kingdom
The sarcophagus and much of the funerary equipment of queen Hetepheres, the mother of Cheops. At El-Giza on the eastern side near the causeway of the great pyramid, at the bottom of a deep shaft, a considerable quantity of furniture overlaid with gold-leaf was found, and there were gold vases, the canopic chest, stone vases and a box containing twenty inlaid silver bracelets, beaten out over a stake, the edges turned inwards and the inside left open. The outer side is decorated with four butterfly designs composed of followed depressions inlaid with turquoise, green jasper, lapis lazuli and carnelian.
The Middle Kingdom
In the temple of Mentuhotep of the XIth Dynasty at Deir El-Bahri, six royal ladies were buried in deep shafts. The most famous hoards of jewellery come from Dahshur and El-Lahun. They belonged to the daughters of Amenemhat II and Senusert II. Another important discovery was a tomb of an earlier period in the same dynasty belonging to Senebtisi who was buried at El-Lisht.
Senebtisi:
Some jewellery was outside the mummy-wrappings. The rest of the jewellery was inside the bandages and included collars, bracelets and anklets. The main articles of the treasure were a diadem, a girdle of acacia, seed beads, ceremonial girdle and two collars. She had a narrow pair of feed anklets which must have been used only for her burial.
Sit-Hathor-int:
she was the daughter of Senusert II and she buried beside his pyramid at El-Lahun. The most important of her jewellery are a diadem, beads, for covering the hair, a pectoral with the name of his father, a pectoral with the name of Amenemhat III, a girdle with cowrie-shell beads, a girdle with leopard or lioness-head beads, scarab finger- rings, gold claw-pendants, bracelets with the name of Amenemhat III, lion-amulets from bracelets and clasps in the form of hieroglyphic signs.
Sit-Hathor:
Possibly she was the elder sister of Sit-Hathor-int and she buried near the pyramid of Senusert III at Dahshur.
De Morgan found a wooden chest bound with gold and containing canopic vases. Beside this chest a cache of jewels. The most important pieces are a pectoral with the name of Senusert II, a scarab with the name of Senusert III, bracelet-clasps, gold shell- pendants, gold amulets in the form of lions, cowrie-beads from a girdle, two cylindrical pendant-amulets, claw-pendants from anklets and some loose beads.
Meret:
She was the wife of Senusert III and she buried beside his pyramid. She had a pectoral with the name of his husband, a pectoral with the name of Amenemhat III, rings with granular decorations, cylindrical pendant amulets , oyster- shell amulets, leopard-(or lioness) head and cowrie-beads from girdles, motto-clasps, lion-amulets from bracelets, mace-head beads, claw-amulets from anklets and scarabs with the names of Amenemhat III and Meret.
The New Kingdom
Ahhotp:
She was the wife of Sekenenre Taa II and the mother of Kamosi and of Amosis, the treasure comprises ceremonial axes, daggers, bracelets, an inlaid pectoral , a scarab on a gold chain, three large fly-amulets, a gold collar composed of many small amulets, the handle of a fan, another collar and silver models of boats.
Wives of Tuthmosis III :
The treasure of the three princesses was discovered by villagers from Qurna by chance in 1916, the wives called Menhet, Menwi and Merti .
The treasure includes two headdresses made of plaques of inlay , one headdress decorated with gazelle-heads, earrings, collars, cylindrical amulets, gold shell pendants , necklaces of pendants, plaques with figures of deities, girdles of fish amulets and wallet-beads, finger-rings, heart-scarabs, toe- and finger-stalls of gold.
Tutankhamun :
The king from XVIIIth Dynasty, his tomb is in the Valley of the Kings.
The main items of jewellery include a diadem, collars, bracelets, belts, earrings, anklets, daggers, pectorals and amulets.
Most of the bracelets buried with him are very different from those which have survived from earlier in the New Kingdom and display a greater variety of design and technique . Twenty-four bracelets were found on the mummy of the king on his forearms, seven on right and six on the left. Six are pairs, worn one on each arm , other bracelets found in the tomb, some in a wooden chest. Most of the rings in his burial were found on the royal mummy others were found in a cloth, and he had twenty-six pectorals. Some were found on his body, others in various boxes.
The Late Periods
Tanis:
Professor Pierre Montet discovered the burials of kings of the XXIst and XXIInd Dynasties in a corner of the temple of Anta.
These treasure now in the Cairo Museum.
Language: Aspects of writing | Linguistic Features | Hieroglyphs etc.Gods
Gods: Isis | Ra | Set | Osiris | Qebhsennef | Maat
Pyramids: Building stones | Egypt Land of the pyramids | Canstruction of Pyramids | Huni's Pyramid | Zoser's step Pyramid | Sneferu's Pyramid | The solar Boat | The grest pyeamid of cheops | Chephren's pyramid | Senusert I's pyramid | Sphinx
Paint: Introduction | Subjects of paint scenes
sports: Introduction | Chariots-training horses | Running | Combating sports | Aquatic sports | Competition | Games and toys | Acrobtics
jewellery: Introduction | Gold | Silver | The precious & semi-precious Stones | The substitutes of precious stones | Same kinds of jewellery | Discoveries of jewellery
Sculpture: Introduction | Old kingdom statues | Middle kingdom statues | New kingdom statues