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<n>The sultan's favourite</n>, an oil on canvas painting by artist <n>Harold H. Piffard</n>.

The <n>L'Orange Variee</n> perfume set by <n>Les Parfums de Marcy</n>, created in 1925.

The 1964-1968 relocation of the <n>Abu Simbel temples</n> in Egypt, a project led by <n>UNESCO</n>. Photo by <n>AFP</n>.

A stone bas-relief known as <n>Raised hands of great finesse</n> at the <n>Kom Ombo Temple</n> in Egypt.

<n>Disjecta membra</n> in Cyrene, photographed by <n>Roloff Beny</n> in 1958.

<n>Collecting Light</n> by <n>Kacper Kowalski</n>, photographed at the <n>Temple of Seti I</n> in Abydos, Egypt.

'<n>They Pulled Up the Princesses</n>' (1914) by <n>Kay Nielsen</n> from '<n>East of the Sun and West of the Moon</n>'.

A stone carving associated with the brand <n>HOMER HELIOS</n>.

Akkadian cylinder seal impression of the goddess <n>Ishtar</n>. Photo by <n>The Morgan Library & Museum</n>.

A depiction of the sky goddess <n>Nut</n> over the earth god <n>Geb</n>, from the 1894 book <n>The Dawn of Astronomy</n>.

A tourist copies hieroglyphs at the <n>Karnak Temple Complex</n> in Egypt, 1927.

<n>Head of a Lady</n>, a 1900 <n>Symbolist</n> painting by <n>Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola</n>.

<n>Stone-Faced</n>, a collection of vernacular carvings by artist <n>Scott Daniel Ellison</n>.

Statue of <n>Pa-Maj</n>, a basalt torso from Egypt's Late Period at the <n>National Archaeological Museum of Naples</n>.