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Collections > The A Group

From the late 4th millennium BC, the A-Group became dominant in the region, and the cases are filled with exquisite A-Group "eggshell ware" pottery, polished quartz cosmetic palettes, and a mica mirror, still retaining traces of galena powder. Intensive Egyptian exploration of Nubia commenced during the Old Kingdom. Outstanding evidence of this is a diorite statue of King Khafre, which was found in the valley temple of the king's pyramid complex at Giza. The stone was quarried from outcrops in the desert west of Toshka - more than 1,000 km south of its final destination. Around this statue are examples of commemorative stelae and ex-votives bearing the names of kings carved by the workmen who were periodically sent to that remote Nubian quarry to bring diorite blocks for the statues and tombs of their kings.

Quartz palette, Nubia
Vessel, Nubia
Vessel, Nubia