All Essays
Egyptian Art
Learn about the facsimile rotation in Gallery 132 on view until November 1, 2024.
Niv Allon and Aude Semat
January 17, 2024
Starting in 1911, the study of temples and tombs of the Middle Kingdom was the focus of the Museum’s work in western Thebes.
Dieter Arnold
December 21, 2023
This plain white coffin, excavated by The Met’s Egyptian Expedition in the 1920s, was full of material from the mummification of a man named Khaemhor, made sacred by contact with his body. Learn more here about the excavation, construction, and meaning of this fascinating object.
Janice Kamrin, Anna Serotta, and Ahmed Tarek
November 15, 2023
Learn about past excavations by the Department of Egyptian Art.
Catharine H. Roehrig
March 16, 2022
By 1905, approximately 4,400 objects formed the nucleus of a collection of ancient Egyptian art at The Met.
Diana Craig Patch
February 21, 2022
The Department of Egyptian Art oversees a wide range of archives, with the earliest dating back to the late nineteenth century.
Diana Craig Patch
January 28, 2022
One of the strangest chapters in the history of the ancient panel portraits from the Fayum region in Egypt took place in the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany.
Amos Morris-Reich
December 31, 2021
Explore facsimile installations from the Museum’s Egyptian Expedition.
November 19, 2020
The Middle Kingdom (mid-Dynasty 11–Dynasty 13, ca. 2030–1640 B.C.) began when Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II reunited Upper and Lower Egypt, setting the stage for a second great flowering of Egyptian culture.
Adela Oppenheim
February 1, 2019
An amulet is an object believed to have certain positive properties that, as the amulet’s main function, can magically be bestowed upon its owner.
Isabel Stünkel
February 1, 2019