The first is a painting of Ramesses II, an Egyptian pharaoh also known as Ramesses the Great, in which his headdress, necklace and sceptre have been substanially reworked.

The cones appear atop the heads of ancient Egyptians in visual representations spanning a stretch of nearly 1500 years from the early New Kingdom to the Ptolemaic period.

Design and decorate your own headdress and learn about pharaohs in ancient Egyptian times with this BBC Bitesize Reception activity.

In an exhibition on ancient Egyptian-inspired fashion at the Cleveland Museum of Art, a relief depicts the wife of Amenhotep wearing a kalasiris, or long linen dress, juxtaposed with a white ...