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Bas-relief portrait of a woman from the Tomb of Ramose, in the Ancient Egyptian Necropolis of the nobles at Thebes, near Luxor, Egypt Bronze Age or earlier (Before 800 BCE) (media.piefed.social)
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Liberated from the evil empire, but I couldn't find a great summary page including this exact piece. Frustrating!

Anybody have a good reference page for this one?

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[–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago

the tomb of someone serving under Akhenaten

Aha, the heretic one-god Pharaoh! I missed you saying that at first.

I kind of admire his massive balls for trying to convert the kingdom to a different theism, but OTOH the 'one-god' thing has played out pretty disastrously in later times IMO, so... yeah.

Ah, who the heck knows...?

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