Ancient Egypt (various): - Click the 'Back'-button of your browser to get back here

• Image 1 - Two Nubian dancers at the Festival of the Nile
• Image 2 - Prince Sen-Nefer, and his wife Merit, both barefoot, watched over by the eyes of God Horus (the symbol for protection)
• Image 3 - An Egyptian Court official and an Egyptian king, wearing thin-soled ornamental sandals, and a barefoot fan-bearer. Since such thin-soled or soleless sandals - mostly worn for ornamental reasons - were worn by the nobility, and kings and queens at times, a variant of soleless footwear was in the 1970s referred to as Cleopatras.
• Image 4 - An Egyptian king and two common people
• Image 5 - An Egyptian queen (middle) and two noblewomen (the latter ones, barefoot, whereas the queen wears thin sandals only)
• Imahe 6 - A tambourine player, a water seller and a servant (19th cent. Egypt)