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Battlefield with prisoners and corpses, on Egyptian cosmetic palette, ca. 3100 BCE. The scene includes bound prisoners being led off and corpses being eaten by vultures, ravens, and a lion. Burial was…
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El-Amarna, Egypt (Minya, Egypt)
Date:
ca. 3100 BCE
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Judicial flogging in Egyptian painting, Beni Hasan, Egypt, Twelfth Dynasty (1938–1759 BCE). A culprit is held down by three men as the court overseer watches. Biblical law included provisions for…
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Beni Hasan, Egypt (Banī Ḩasan ash Shurūq, Egypt)
Date:
Middle Kingdom (Egypt), 20th–18th Century BCE