"Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids" is the first major, comprehensive exhibition of Old Kingdom art. It includes approximately 250 objects from more than thirty museums in Egypt, Europe, and North America; forty-one are presented in this Web feature. Read more about the Old Kingdom, ca. 2650–ca. 2150 B.C., in the introduction or explore the individual works by selecting one of the following themes:



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