Entrance Collection (page 69)

Head of Tutankhamun as a child emerging from a lotus flower as the sun-god emerges from the flower as it opens its petals. The work was found at the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun

View through the Pylons, Mortuary Temple of Rameses III, Medinat Habu, Luxor, c12th century BC
View through the Pylons, Mortuary Temple of Rameses III, Medinat Habu, Luxor, Egypt, 20th Dynasty, c12th century BC

Mortuary Temple of Rameses III at Medinat Habu, Luxor, Egypt, 20th Dynasty, c12 century BC

Obelisk of Ramesses II, Temple sacred to Amun Mut & Khons, Luxor, Egypt, c13th century BC
Obelisk of Rameses II, Temple sacred to Amun Mut and Khons, Luxor, Egypt, c13th century BC. Rameses II reigned between 1307 BC and 1237 BC

Obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut, Temple of Amun, Karnak, Egypt, c1503 - c1483 BC
Obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut, Temple of Amun, Karnak, Egypt, c1503-c1483 BC. Queen Hatshepsut reigned with Tuthmosis III between 1503 BC and 1483 BC

Obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut viewed from ground, Temple of Amun, Karnak, Egypt, c1503-c1483 BC
Obelisk of Queen Hatshepsut viewed from the ground, Temple of Amun, Karnak, Egypt. Queen Hatshepsut reigned alongside Tuthmosis III from 1503-1483 BC

Temple of Hathor, Dendera, Egypt, late Ptolemaic and Roman Periods, c125 BC-c60 AD. Once a year the goddess Hathor took the voyage on the Nile to Edfu to visit Horus

Wallpaintings and False Doors, Temple of Sethos I, Abydos, Egypt, 19th Dynasty, c1280 BC
Wallpaintings and False Doors, Temple of Sethos I (Seti I), Abydos, Egypt, 19th Dynasty, c1280 BC. Sethos I making offerings to Osiris, Sanctuary of Osiris

Entrance to the Acropolis, Athens, 5th century BC. Known as the Propylaea, the monumental entrance to the Acropolis was designed by the architect Mnesikles under the direction of Pericles

Lion Gate, Mycenae, Greece, c1250 BC. Mycenae was a prehistoric Greek city discovered by the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) in the 1870s

Entrance to the Maginot barracks, Maginot Line, France, c1935-1940. Conceived by Andre Maginot (1877-1932) as an impegnable wall on Frances eastern frontier

Entry of the Burgundians into Paris, 14 May 1418, (c1484)
Entry of the Burgundians into Paris, 14 May 1418. Illuminated miniature from Vigils of Charles VII in the Chronicles of Jean Chartier, edited by Martial of Auvergne

Presumed view of an Amsterdam gate in winter, 1622. Artist: Abrahamsz Beerstraten
Presumed view of an Amsterdam gate in winter, 1622

Stone relief from the doorway to the Hall of 100 Columns, Persepolis, South Iran, c500 BC. Relief carving from the Palace of Darius I (548-486 BC), Achaemenid king of Persia

Howard Carter at the entrance to Tutankhamuns tomb, Luxor, Egypt, 1922-1923. The discovery of Tutankhamuns tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter (1874-1939)

Entrance to a tomb in an Etruscan necropolis, Cerveteri (Caere) Italy, c7th-6th century BC
Entrance to a tomb in an Etruscan necropolis, Cerveteri, (Caere) Italy, c7th-6th century BC. The term necropolis literally means city of the dead

The Wedding Day, c1885. A bridal party at the church door about to enter

Statues of Rameses II outside the entrance to the main temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt, 13th Century BC
Sandstone statues of Rameses II outside the entrance to the main temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt, 13th Century BC. The temple was built during the reign of Rameses II (ruled 1279-1212 BC)

Entrance to a tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Thebes, Egypt, 1855. The Valley of the Kings was the site of over 60 tombs of pharaohs and nobles of the Ancient Egyptian New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC)

The Temple of Abu Simbel, Nubia, Egypt, 1878. Artist: Felix Bonfils
The Temple of Abu Simbel, Nubia, Egypt, 1878. The monumental statues of Rameses II outside the entrance to the Temple of Abu Simbel. From Album of Photographs, Egypt, by Felix Bonfils, 1878

Entrance to ruins, Egypt, 1863-1864. Artist: Emmanuel Rouge
Entrance to ruins, Egypt, 1863-1864. Photograph from an expedition to Egypt by Emmanuel Rouge, Viscount of Banville, in 1863-1864

Knights Templar before Jerusalem, c1099, (14th century). Two knights approach the open gate to the city. On the battlements are three Saracen warriors

The Shopping Arcade des Panoramas in Paris, 1807. Artist: Philibert Louis Debucourt
The Shopping Arcade des Panoramas in Paris, 1807. From the Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Shelter built by the glaciologist Louis Agassiz, Aar glacier, Switzerland, 1840 (1885). Agassizs studies of glaciers in the Alps led him to be the first to propose the theory that the Earth had been

The Cave of Eileithyia, goddess of childbirth, on Crete, with a fig tree (symbol of fertility) at the entrance to the cave

Avelines hole, a paleolithic cave dwelling, 12000 BC
Avelines hole, a paleolithic cave dwelling in the Mendip hills, Somerset, England. A view of the entrance from outside, 12000 BC

Entrance of a tumulus at Mycenae, late Bronze Age, Greece, c1450-c1100 BC. Mycenae was a prehistoric Greek city discovered by the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) in the 1870s

Highgate Cemetery, London, 1838. View of the Egyptian Avenue in the North London Cemetery, built in the architectural style fashionable at this time

Port of Marseilles, 1906-1907. Artist: Paul Signac
Port of Marseilles, 1906-1907. Found in the collection of The Hermitage, St Petersburg

Entrance, Uspenski Cathedral, Helsinki, Finland, 2011. Artist: Sheldon Marshall
Entrance, Uspenski Cathedral, Helsinki, Finland, 2011. The cathedral was built in the Russian Byzantine style in the 1860s, and is said to be the largest Orthodox church in western Europe

Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. Artist: Sheldon Marshall
Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. Opened in 1860, the Mariinsky Theatre became the principal venue for classical music

The Holy Doors and iconostasis, St Isaacs Cathedral, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. Artist: Sheldon Marshall
The Holy Doors and iconostasis, St Isaacs Cathedral, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. Built between 1818 and 1858, St Isaacs Cathedral was the largest cathedral in Russia when it was completed

Peter and Paul Cathedral, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. Artist: Sheldon Marshall
Bell tower, Peter and Paul Cathedral, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. The cathedral, which was built between 1712 and 1733, stands within the Peter and Paul Fortress

Bell tower, Peter and Paul Cathedral, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. Artist: Sheldon Marshall
Bell tower, Peter and Paul Cathedral, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. The cathedral, which was built between 1712 and 1733, stands within the Peter and Paul Fortress

Entrance of the Taleon Imperial Hotel, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. Artist: Sheldon Marshall
Entrance of the Taleon Imperial Hotel, St Petersburg, Russia, 2011. This luxury hotel is a converted 18th century palace

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