The model portrays a kitchen boat carrying jars of beer and wine and joints of meat. Kitchen boats probably accompanied the owner's main boat to provide him and his companions with food and drink.

The silver container and a pencil, the container has a pear-shaped body and rests on a high base.

This box is for keeping a scale and weights. It contains a sliding rule of two levels, carved and divided to contain balances.

The Roman bust of Serapis is derived from a Hellenistic model. This bust is different from other depictions of Serapis as this style links him with the sun god Helios and the god of wine Dionysos.

This wooden inner coffin of Thuya is gilded on the outside and silvered on the inside and decorated with divinities who protect the deceased.

The sarcophagus is painted with beautiful scenes from the Book of the Dead. The lid is decorated with 12 funerary deities and Khonsu with his family.

This silk textile fragment, from the Fatimid period, has designs of geometric patterns, plant elements, and benedictory inscriptions.

This icon of Saint Stephan is drawn on a rectangular wooden panel. The picture is surrounded by a frame of plants with yellow flowers and white leaves.

The mask of Selinus, a famous sculptor, is one of the rare examples of a mask that gives us an idea about how this object was made. The mask has a yellow face, red mouth, and white hair. It was mounted on a plaque of plaster in a red...

Prince Yashbak's dome is a unique structure. It is covered by semicircular domed ceilings that are built on a square building. The dome is decorated inside with a line of scripture written in magnificent Mamluk Thuluth script.

One pair of castanets, or musical instruments, made of ivory and in the shape of human hands, depicts bearded Asiatics.

This ostracon shows a harpist, who is a bald man, with a large and richly decorated harp, which is possibly standing.

This wooden model boat is an imitation of a boat made from bundles of papyrus reeds tied together in bunches.

The pectoral front shows a solar bark, or boat, and a scarab placed between the goddesses Maat and Nephthys. The underside depicts the bottom of the scarab, which is placed between two Djed signs.

This rectangular piece of wool is decorated with stylized ducks and rabbits and Kufic inscription with foliage and floral designs.

This low-relief of Tep-em-Ankh shows a nude man being grasped around the legs by a large monkey. A second man leads a female monkey who is carrying a baby.

Made of palm leaves, this sandal has an external high frame that is also braided with fine palm leaves.

The funerary shawabti is a statuette intended to perform work in place of the deceased in the underworld. The shawabti of Sennedjem is in the form of a mummy with a long black wig, a necklace, and two baskets slung over his shoulders.

The head of an ibex once decorated the shoulder of an elaborate pottery vase from the courts of King Amenhotep the Third. Painted pottery jars, decorated with fine paintings and innovative designs, were much in fashion.

This sphinx of Shepenwepet portrays her as the God's Wife of Amun-Re. The statue is sculpted in the elegant style traditional in the Late Period.

King Tutankhamun is depicted here in the form of a human-headed sphinx wearing the Double Crown.

This oblong panel with incised ornamentation of a large bear is supported by a panel held by a man standing on the right.

This small piece of textile consists of a decorative band with floral designs in the form of flowers and small rosettes. This piece of textile is in the Kapati style, for which the Egyptian Copts were famous throughout the ages.

The mastaba is a double tomb, which belonged to two dignitaries who lived during the fifth dynasty: Akhethotep and his son Ptah-hotep. The principal titles of Akhet-hotep were vizier and judge, as well as "supervisor of prophets of the...