A Royal Egyptian Steatite Scarab, 25th Dynasty, ca. 747 - 656 BCE Medium - Iron A graceful and remarkably well-preserved

A graceful and remarkably well-preserved wooden figure of an Egyptian dignitary

Mesopotamia

Accounts make it clear that indigenous peoples practiced taking and displaying human heads as trophies

and knot placement that form the basis of the khipu’s encoded information

This very fine bronze short sword was cast using the lost wax process

A Royal Egyptian Steatite Scarab, 25th Dynasty, ca. 747 - 656 BCE Medium - Iron A graceful and remarkably well-preservedcarved from steatite, with naturalistically rendered legs, pierced horizontally for suspension. Functioning as an amulet, the base is finely inscribed Men Kheper Ra Khmeny. Men Kheper Ra Khmeny was a vassal king of the 25th Dynasty, and all evidence indicates that he ruled in Upper Egypt at Hermopolis. He appears with full royal titles on a plaque in the British Museum. For a related example, see Petrie, Scarabs and Cylinders, pl. LIII, no. 25c 7.