Shell cosmetic container, 700-600 bc, made from real shell, carved w/lotuses, sphinx, lady's face.Probably used to hold solid scented perfumes (which are the closest thing we have today to ancient perfumes)
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Hi Illeana Thanks. I came across it by chance and thought it the most beautiful thing! Funny it would be so easy to replicate but it never has been! Shell would be easy to carve. It uses the shell's shape so powerfully hey! best wishes :)
Tutankhamcarman's tomb: On 4 November 1922, Carter's excavation group found steps that Carter hoped led to Tutankhamun's tomb (subsequently designated KV62), and he wired Lord Carnarvon to come to Egypt. On 26 November 1922, Carter made a "tiny breach in the top left hand corner" of the doorway, with Carnarvon, his daughter Lady Evelyn Herbert, and others in attendance—and using a chisel that his grandmother had given him for his 17th birthday. He was able to peer in by the light of a candle and see that many of the gold and ebony treasures were still in place. He did not yet know whether it was "a tomb or merely a cache", but he did see a promising sealed doorway between two sentinel statues. Carnarvon asked, "Can you see anything?" Carter replied with the famous words: "Yes, wonderful things!"
@sogdianrock yeah.but i have always been in love with history,geography,english and biology since my school days.:) by the way keep posting such beautiful things whenever you get time:)
