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An item at Louvre

snake head (pierced on the top of the skull with three holes which communicate with each other: the head must have supported a crown or a solar disk. The eyes were formerly inlaid.)

Department of Egyptian Antiquities

An exhibit at Louvre

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The collections of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities present the civilization that evolved on the banks of the Nile, from the end of Prehistory (around 4,000 BCE) to the Christian era (from the 4th century CE).