Egyptian Mythology
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The Questioner of the Sphinx
Painting · Elihu Vedder
Vedder's The Questioner of the Sphinx (1863) is a key American Symbolist work, a lone figure pressing his ear to the lips of the half-buried Egyptian sphinx for an answer that will not come.Crosses Sy
Tristithea·6/27/2026
Anubis Attending the Mummy of Sennedjem
Tomb painting · Anonymous (19th Dynasty Egyptian artisan)
Painted on the wall of the tomb of Sennedjem (TT1) in Deir el-Medina around the 19th Dynasty (c. 1295-1213 BCE), this scene shows the jackal-headed god Anubis attending Sennedjem's mummified body on a
Tristithea·5/28/2026
