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Egyptian hieroglyphs — Luxor Temple
Photograph by Jorge Láscar. Used for the home hero and temple-wall note.
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Sources and image credits
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Image ledger
Six open images
Credit lines also appear beside the relevant article image. Wikimedia Commons hosts the source files; creators and institutions retain the attribution stated below.
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Hieratic ostracon with an inventory, C 2169
Image from Museo Egizio. The source identifies limestone, hieratic inventory and front view.
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Coptic Liturgical Codex
Open-access image from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Ibn Tulun Mosque fountain kiosk inscription
Photograph by R Prazeres. The source description connects the panel to Sultan Lajin’s 1296 fountain construction.
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Temple of Hathor reliefs, Dendera
Photograph by Vyacheslav Argenberg. Used for the contextual photography method.
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Ancient Egypt Papyrus Writing
Photograph by Gary Todd, made in the Egyptian galleries of the Louvre Museum.
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Research starting points
Use institutional records next
For object-level research, search an accession number in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection or the Museo Egizio collection. For the historic urban setting of Cairo monuments, begin with the UNESCO Historic Cairo record. These are starting points, not blanket sources for every statement on the site.
Historic scripts, translations, dating and conservation should be checked against the relevant object record and specialist publication. A general web image is not sufficient evidence for authentication or attribution.