Queen Nefertiti - Monaco FDC

 

Really lovely First Day Cover received a few days ago, which was issued on 19 October 2012 in Monaco.
 It commemorates the Centenary of the discovery of the Bust of Nefertiti by a team of German archaeologists in Tell el-Amarna in 1912.   
Today the Bust can be seen in the Berlin Museum.

Nubian Monuments - Monaco FDC

A beautiful First Day Cover issued in Monaco on 24 October 1995.

Nubian Monuments - Monaco

A set of two stamps issued in Monaco in 1995 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the UNESCO.

UNESCO Campaign - Monaco

First Day Cover, 03 June 1961, Monaco

Maximum Card

Champollion - Monaco

Monaco, 1990, SG 1996

Bicentenary of Champollion's Birth

UNESCO Campaign - Monaco

This stamp from Monaco was issued in 1961 for the UNESCO Campaign to preserve Nubian monuments (Scott #479).

It has two interesting features. Firstly, there's the fact that it is meant to be displayed as a diamond shape rather than a plain old square. Secondly, it depicts a less common subject of all the Nubian monuments stamps I've come across: a submerged sphinx of Wadi es Sebua, the Valley of the Lions.

The Ramses-headed sphinxes line an avenue leading to the Temple of Amun-Ra, built by Ramses II in his 44th year of rule. The construction is similar to that of the temples of Abu Simbel: a free-standing facade and rooms hewn from the surrounding rock (speos).