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Vivid scenes of ancient life depicted by contemporary artists

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Vivid scenes of ancient life depicted by contemporary artists.jpg Egyptian Social Types (From Tombs)ThumbnailsEgyptian Ship on Red Sea, 1250 B.CEgyptian Social Types (From Tombs)ThumbnailsEgyptian Ship on Red Sea, 1250 B.CEgyptian Social Types (From Tombs)ThumbnailsEgyptian Ship on Red Sea, 1250 B.CEgyptian Social Types (From Tombs)ThumbnailsEgyptian Ship on Red Sea, 1250 B.CEgyptian Social Types (From Tombs)ThumbnailsEgyptian Ship on Red Sea, 1250 B.C

The walls of the tombs in Egypt form a great picture gallery of the vanished life of that country and are invaluable to the historian. This fragment from the British Museum shows how vividly the domestic figures were realised.