Middle kingdom

This is a painted wooden statuette of an Ancient Egyptian Noble named Heni dated to ca. 2050-1785 B.C, 10-12th Dynasty, Late First Intermediate Period to Middle Kingdom and is held by the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Photographed at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.

“Statue of the God Sobek from the mortuary temple of King Amenemhat III (ca. 1859–1813 BCE, XII Dynasty, Middle Kingdom), south of Shedet-Krokodilopolis (Arsinoe), Piam/Phiom region (Moeris Lake). Now in the Ashmolean Museum.”

Publishing and Marketing Assistant Rachel High discusses Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom with curator and catalogue co-author Adela Oppenheim.

A detail of a bas relief depicts king Senusret I making an offering to Min-Amun, god of fertility and harvest. Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, reign of Senusret I, ca. 1971-1926 BC. White Chapel of Senusret I, Karnak Open Air Museum, Luxor.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed an ancient Middle Kingdom tomb with 11 sealed burials and “perfectly intact” jewellery. Teams from the US and Egypt made the shocking discovery near the fa…