Boarding Gate 101

A relief of Egyptian deities are carved along the walls of the Temple of Dendur .  The pharaohs are identified by the cartouches above their figures. A cartouche is an oval inscription with a horizontal line at the end, which indicates that the name enclosed is that of a royalty.

Front view of the Sphinx of Hetsepsut, the fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty , on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A sphinx is mythical creature with a body of a lion and a human's head. Egyptian sphinxes were guardians to the entrances of temples. by Kin Enriquez

This Colossal Seated Statue of Amenhotep III was once installed in a temple of Amen-Re in Luxor, Thebes. Amenhotep III was the ninth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty [ 1 ]. The statue, which  weighs around 6,100 lbs,   was later usurped by Merneptah (ca. 1213-1203 B.C.). and was moved to a different part of the temple. Met Museum, Gallery 131

The mummy Pet-Menek in its coffin. Identified as a priest for the god Chem, the Ptolemaic period (4th-3rd century B.C.) mummy was discovered in 1885 in the necropolis of Akhmin. 

Mummy Mask of the Lady Ka-nefer-nefer, of Dynasty 19 (1307-1196 BC) at St. Louis Art Museum. The mask was dug from Saqqara , a necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis. Ka-nefer-nefer was a noblewoman.  This artifact was bought from Phoenix Ancient Art in 1998. It was put under litigation as Egypt wanted this back, insisting that it was stolen sometime in 1959. St. Louis Art Museum prevailed, as Egypt "was not able to prove its claim of ownership." [ 1 , 2 ]

The Temple of Dendur, originally built in Nubia in  15 B.C. for the goddess Isis of Philae, commissioned by Emperor Augustus The temple was disassembled in 1963, as the construction of the Aswan Dam threatened to inundate the structure, which is located near the Nile.  It was  presented by Egypt in 1965 to the United States as a gift, and was  reconstructed in the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in 1978 [ 1 ].