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African Artifacts Stock Photos

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Ancient Egyptian art, Symbol, under surfaces of Scarabaei amulets, Eye of Horus, Hawks, Beetle, Snake, Fish

Ancient Egyptian Culture, Antiquities, Sculpture

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African mask isolated on white background

Africa, African Culture, Mask - Disguise

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Egyptian fresco

Egypt, Hieroglyphics, Ancient Egyptian Culture

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Ancient Egyptian bas reliefs, Temple of Ramses II

Egypt, Antiquities, Africa

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Hypostyle Hall, Hathor Temple, Dendera, Egypt.

Egypt, Ancient Egyptian Culture, Antiquities

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Ancient Egyptian decorative art, Flowers, Lotus, Papyrus, Desert plants, Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones, 1860s, Victorian

Egypt, Africa, Archival

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Akwasidae Celebration In Kumasi And The Returned Looted Artefacts Of The Asante Kingdom

Antiquities, Ghana, Ashanti People

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Ancient Egyptian art, Sculpture, Sculptured Amulets, Faces, Bird

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Ancient Egyptian papyrus, Mythology, History Egpyt, Art, Ani in the Elysian Fields, Thoth, triad of Gods

Egypt, Papyrus Paper, Ancient Egyptian Culture

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Tombs and Funerary Objects, Published in 1851

Visitors view the 2024 Shanghai Summer - On Top Of The Pyramid: The Civilization Of Ancient Egypt Exhibition at the Shanghai Museum on July 18, 2024...

2024 Shanghai Summer - On Top Of The Pyramid: The Civilization Of Ancient Egypt

Mummified, Antiquities

Ashantee golden ornaments and trophies, 1874. 'The prize agents of the British military forces lately serving in the campaign on the Gold Coast sold...

Ashantee Golden Ornaments And Trophies

Man carries an asipim chair at the Akwasidae celebration and the returned looted artefacts of the Asante Kingdom on May 12,2024 in Kumasi, Ghana....

Akwasidae Celebration In Kumasi And The Returned Looted Artefacts Of The Asante Kingdom

Antiquities, Ashanti People, Ghana

Looted Asante artefacts returned on loan from the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum on display at the Manhyia Palace Museum in...

Akwasidae Celebration In Kumasi And The Returned Looted Artefacts Of The Asante Kingdom

Antiquities, Ghana, Museum

Africa relics in a case-museum.

LE VILLAGE AFRICAIN DE GEORGES PRESTAT

Pharaonic artifacts that were recovered after being stolen from Egyptian museums' collections in 2011 and 2013 following the January 25 Revolution...

Recovered historical artifacts in Cairo

Museum, Antiquities

The mummy of the Herichefemhat the cupbearer and tools for embalming and burial, oil lamp, knife and four canopic jars. Egyptian civilisation, Late...

The mummy of Herichefemhat

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History, Ancient Rome, Bronze statue of the Egyptian god Horus wearing Roman armour, Vintage illustration

National Museum exhibition officers adjust the Head of a the king Oba of Benin , the Bird of Prophecy , the Statue of a Leopard , and the Carved...

NIGERIA-CULTURE-ARTS-NETHERLANDS

Looted Asante artefacts returned on loan from the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum on display at the Manhyia Palace Museum in...

Akwasidae Celebration In Kumasi And The Returned Looted Artefacts Of The Asante Kingdom

British Museum, Art, Antiquities

Visitors view the contentious Benin plaques exhibit at the British Museum in London. The museum, one of London's top tourist attractions, is rarely...

British Museum In London

Benin, British Museum, Antiquities

Detail of the contentious Benin plaques exhibit at the British Museum in London. The museum, one of London's top tourist attractions, is rarely far...

British Museum In London

Benin, British Museum, Antiquities

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African mask isolated on white background

African Culture, Africa, African People

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Mosaic from El jem, Tunisia

Ancient Rome, Roman, Antique

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African Ax Or Hatchet Weapon

Africa, Ancient, African Culture

Looted Asante artefacts returned on loan from the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum on display at the Manhyia Palace Museum in...

Akwasidae Celebration In Kumasi And The Returned Looted Artefacts Of The Asante Kingdom

Antiquities, Ghana, British Museum

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Generation X African-American Couple Unpacking Memories and Smiling in New Home During Retirement Transition

Relocation, Moving House, Senior Couple

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THE PALMA CHRISTI, ALSO KNOWN AS CASTOR BEAN PLANT (RICINUS COMMUNIS), IS A MEDICINAL PLANT NATIVE TO AFRICA AND ASIA , WIDELY USED IN VARIOUS TRADITIONS FOR ITS THERAPEUTIC PROPERTIES.

Tradition, Africa, African Culture

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Mature woman photograhing hieroglyphics

Ancient, People, Engraved Image

People look at a statue with lion's head representing King Glele and the statue with a man's head and shark's body representing King Behanzin during...

BENIN-FRANCE-POLITICS-ART-DIPLOMACY

Antiquities, Benin, France

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, sits in state next to the Sika Dwa Kofi , the spiritual representation of Asanteman at the Akwasidae...

Akwasidae Celebration In Kumasi And The Returned Looted Artefacts Of The Asante Kingdom

Ghana, Ashanti People, Ashanti Empire

Looted Asante artefacts returned on loan from the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum on display at the Manhyia Palace Museum in...

Akwasidae Celebration In Kumasi And The Returned Looted Artefacts Of The Asante Kingdom

Cultures, Antiquities, Art

Gold grave goods, from a burial mound in a mining village in Wadi Terfowi, Nubian Desert, Sudan. Egyptian Civilisation, Meroitic Period, 3rd century...

Gold grave goods

Sudan, Ancient, Ancient Egyptian Culture

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Vintage Ancient Egyptian Ceremonial Ship Patterned Sail Engraving – Antique Royal Barge Line Art

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Ruins in the Roman amphitheater in Carthage

Archaeology, Ancient

Visitors visit the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization on June 30, 2024 in Cairo, Egypt. The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization is located...

Visitors Tour The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization In Cairo

Museum, Egypt, Cairo

Looted Asante artefacts returned on loan from the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum on display at the Manhyia Palace Museum in...

Akwasidae Celebration In Kumasi And The Returned Looted Artefacts Of The Asante Kingdom

Art, British Museum, Looting

Egyptian artefacts are on display at Imhotep Museum as the museum reopens after improvement works in Saqqara district of Giza, Egypt on December 03,...

Imhotep Museum reopens in Egypt

Museum, Antiquities

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African Farming Tool Weapon

Gardening Equipment, Work Tool, Africa

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Mosaic Floor Tiles in old palace, Marrakesh

Museum, Morocco, Antiquities

The gold death mask of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun at the British Museum in London, the highlight of the Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition, UK,...

Tutankhamun's Death Mask

Death Mask of Tutankhamen, British Museum, 1972

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Astronomical Ceiling, Temple of Hathor Dendera, Egypt

Ancient Egyptian Culture, Temple - Building, Egypt

Visitors view the Anubis Shrine that was part of the burial collection of Tutankhamun , found in 1922 at his tomb KV62 and on display at the Egyptian...

EGYPT-ARCHAEOLOGY-BRITAIN-FRANCE-LINGUISTICS-HISTORY

Visit, Antiquities

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Various patterns of Antiquity, chromolithograph, published in 1897

Pattern, Greek Culture, Roman

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France, Paris, The Louvre Museum, Sully Wing, Small Egyptian Turquoise Figurine from the Reign of SÃ©thi 1st, XIXe Dynasty (ca.1294-1279 BC).

Antiquities, Paris - France

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France, Paris, The Louvre Museum, Sully Wing, Egyptian Antiquities, New Kingdom, Face of Fragment of Egyptian Sarcophagus dated (ca.1550â€"1070 BC)

Musee du Louvre, Antiquities

Pharaonic artifacts that were recovered after being stolen from Egyptian museums' collections in 2011 and 2013 following the January 25 Revolution...

Recovered historical artifacts in Cairo

Pharaonic artifacts that were recovered after being stolen from Egyptian museums' collections in 2011 and 2013 following the January 25 Revolution...

Recovered historical artifacts in Cairo

The Rosetta Stone, 196 BC. A basalt slab inscribed with a decree of the Pharaoh Ptolemy Epiphanes in three languages; Greek, Hieroglyphic and Demotic...

The Rosetta Stone, 196 BC.

Rosetta Stone, Greece, Text

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Cypriot Egyptianizing Male Figure, ca. 6th century BC, woodcut, 1898

August 2025, Egypt, Alexandria: Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Sherif Fathy delivers a speech during a tour at the "Secrets of the...

Secrets of the Sunken city exhibition in Alexandria

Workers making Pharaonic souvenirs such as statues of kings, temples and other antiquities at Abu Al-Eish's alabaster workshop on January 10, 2025 in...

Alabaster Workshop In Luxor

Men and women carry boxes during a procession at the Akwasidae celebration and the returned looted artefacts of the Asante Kingdom on May 12 in...

Akwasidae Celebration In Kumasi And The Returned Looted Artefacts Of The Asante Kingdom

Ashanti People, Ghana, Antiquities

Looted Asante artefacts returned on loan from the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum on display at the Manhyia Palace Museum in...

Akwasidae Celebration In Kumasi And The Returned Looted Artefacts Of The Asante Kingdom

British Museum, Art, Antiquities

Visitors view artefacts returned by the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum on a three-year loan at the Manhyia Palace Museum in...

GHANA-BRITAIN-HISTORY-HERITAGE

Kumasi, Ghana, Antiquities

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African mask isolated on white background

Africa, African Culture, African People

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Antique illustration, ethnography and indigenous cultures: Africa, Bari people tribal dance

Africa, African Culture, African People

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Ancient Egyptian decorative art, Patterns, History of art and decor

Pattern, Middle East, Egypt

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African mask isolated on white background

Africa, African Culture, Sculpture

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