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Abydos ivory tags
Abydos ivory tags, also known as Abydos tags, are small inscribed plaques tied to tomb goods, including the earliest widely accepted evidence for writing in Egypt.
Badarian culture
The Badarian culture, also known as the Badari culture, was a predynastic culture of Upper Egypt, the oldest known farming tradition in the Nile Valley, dating to about 4400–4000 BC.
Battlefield Palette
The Battlefield Palette, also called the Vultures Palette, is an Egyptian ceremonial cosmetic palette from around 3150 BC, showing vultures and a lion over defeated men.
Black-topped pottery
Black-topped pottery is a Predynastic Egyptian ware with a burnished red body and black rim, typical of Naqada I and II, about 4000 to 3000 BC.
Bull Palette
The Bull Palette is a fragmentary greywacke ceremonial cosmetic palette from late Predynastic Egypt, about 3200 to 3100 BC, decorated with a bull trampling a defeated man and now in the Louvre.
Bushel with ibex motifs
The bushel with ibex motifs is a tall painted terracotta beaker from the Susa I necropolis in Iran, dated 4200-3500 BCE and held in the Louvre.
Buto-Maadi culture
The Buto-Maadi culture, also called the Maadi culture, was a Chalcolithic archaeological culture of Lower Egypt, named after the sites Maadi and Buto, lasting from about 3900 to 3200 BC.
Cairo Stone
The Cairo Stone is a group of basalt fragments in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo bearing parts of the royal annals of ancient Egypt, complementing the Palermo Stone.
Den seal impressions
The Den seal impressions are clay and mud sealings bearing the Horus name of Den, a First Dynasty king of Egypt, found in his Abydos tomb and at Saqqara.
Dynastic race theory
Dynastic race theory, sometimes called the Dynastic Race, is the discredited claim that an invading eastern master race brought civilization to ancient Egypt, proposed by Flinders Petrie in 1939.
Ebony label of Den
The ebony label of Den is a small inscribed ebony plaque from King Den's First Dynasty tomb at Abydos, now held in the British Museum.
El-Amra clay model of cattle
The El-Amra clay model of cattle is a Predynastic Egyptian group of four clay cows, made about 3500 BC and excavated in 1900–01 from grave A23 at el-Amra, Upper Egypt.
Gebel el-Arak knife
The Gebel el-Arak knife, also known as the Gebel al-Arak knife, is a Predynastic Egyptian flint knife with a carved ivory handle, held in the Louvre since 1914.
Gebel Sheikh Suleiman inscription
The Gebel Sheikh Suleiman inscription is an Early Dynastic Egyptian rock relief at the Second Cataract of the Nile in Lower Nubia, recording a king's victory over Nubians.
Gebelein predynastic mummies
The Gebelein predynastic mummies are seven naturally mummified bodies from Predynastic Egypt in the British Museum, including "Ginger," whose bearers carry the world's earliest known figural tattoos.
Hunters Palette
The Hunters Palette, also called the Lion Hunt Palette, is a large ceremonial cosmetic palette of late Predynastic Egypt (Naqada III), carved in relief with hunters killing lions and desert animals.
Ivory label of Den
The ivory label of Den, or King Den's sandal label, is an ivory year and sandal label of King Den, made about 2985 BC and held in the British Museum.
Libyan Palette
The Libyan Palette, also called the Tehenu or Cities Palette, is a Late Predynastic Egyptian ceremonial schist palette fragment, dated to about 3200-3000 BC, carved with animals, olive trees, and seven walled towns.
MacGregor plaque
The MacGregor plaque, also known as King Den's sandal label, is an incised ivory label of King Den, the fifth king of Egypt's First Dynasty, now in the British Museum.
Main Deposit
The Main Deposit is a cache of temple objects found below floor level at Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt, excavated by Quibell and Green in 1897–99.
Manshiyat Ezzat Palette
The Manshiyat Ezzat Palette is a decorated ceremonial greywacke cosmetic palette unearthed in 1998 from an intact First Dynasty elite tomb at Minshat Ezzat in the northeastern Nile Delta.
Min Palette
The Min Palette, also called the El-Amrah palette, is a late Predynastic Egyptian ceremonial cosmetic palette carved with the god Min's emblem, held in the British Museum.
Naqada culture
The Naqada culture, also known as the Naqada period, was a Predynastic Upper Egyptian culture of the fourth millennium BC, named after the site of Naqada.
Naqada I
Naqada I, also called the Amratian, is the first phase of the Naqada culture of Predynastic Upper Egypt, running c. 4000-3500 BC with farming villages between Abydos and Hierakonpolis.
Naqada III
Naqada III, also called the Semainian culture, is the final phase of Egypt's Predynastic Naqada culture, about 3200-3000 BC, marked by Dynasty 0 kings and the earliest hieroglyphs.
Narmer Macehead
The Narmer Macehead is a limestone ceremonial macehead attributed to King Narmer of Egypt's First Dynasty, about 3050 BC, found at Hierakonpolis and held at Oxford.
Palermo Stone
The Palermo Stone is a black basalt stela fragment bearing the oldest surviving royal annals of ancient Egypt, recording kings from predynastic times to the mid Fifth Dynasty, now kept in Palermo, Sicily.
Predynastic Egyptian mummies
Predynastic Egyptian mummies are preserved human bodies from Egypt's Predynastic period, preserved by natural desiccation in hot desert sand or deliberate embalming, with the best-known examples from Gebelein held by the British Museum.
Sabu disk
The Sabu disk is a tri-lobed ornamental stone bowl from a 1st Dynasty tomb at North Saqqara, Egypt, excavated in 1936 and held in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
Scorpion Macehead
The Scorpion Macehead, or Major Scorpion macehead, is a large limestone ceremonial mace-head found at Hierakonpolis in 1897–98, carved around 3100 BC and now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.