Pharaoh of the Two Lands - The African story of the kings of Napata

Pharaoh of the Two Lands - The African story of the kings of Napata

April 27, 2022 July 25, 2022 Exhibition has ended
In the 8th century BC, a kingdom grew up around the Nubian capital, Napata. In about 730 BC, the Nubian king Piankhy conquered Egypt and founded the 25th Dynasty of Kushite kings, who ruled for more than fifty years over a kingdom stretching from the Nile Delta to the confluence of the White and Blue Niles. The most famous of those kings is the pharaoh Taharqa. The exhibition highlights the importance of this vast kingdom, located in what is now northern Sudan. It is organised in connection with ...
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Wooden Chess game Hieroglyphics - Musée du Louvre - Vilac

CJ093433
  • Current price€ 44.95
This chess set created by Vilac is inspired by the collections of the Egyptian Antiquities Department of the Louvre Museum. Presenting the civilization that evolved on the banks of the Nile, from the end of prehistory (around 4,000 BC) to the Christian era (from the 4th century AD), the department founded by Champollion in 1826, is today rich with more than fifty thousand works. It offers visitors a chronological and thematic tour of more than four thousand years of civilizations!

An original chess set in a wooden box that allows you to discover some of the characters of Egyptian antiquity.

A real decorative object, it can be placed in a modern or traditional interior.

A wooden game board, which serves as a storage box when closed.
32 painted and screen-printed wooden pieces.
A cotton storage bag.
A rule book.

From 6 years old
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