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Divine guardian figures and a shrine containing an Anubis fetish
Learn about past excavations by the Department of Egyptian Art.
Catharine H. Roehrig
March 16, 2022
Shabti box and shabtis from the tomb of Sennedjem
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
A spread from the guest book kept between 1923 and 1939 by Minnie Burton, wife of photographer Harry Burton, at Metropolitan House on the West Bank at Thebes. Album displays handwritten notes and black-and-white photos of people in various poses.
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
Painting showing two craftsmen in a workshop
Explore facsimile installations from the Museum’s Egyptian Expedition.
November 19, 2020
The Met Fifth facade
The vocabulary of ancient Egyptian art would be interpreted and adapted in different ways depending on the standards and motivations of the time.
Sara Ickow
July 1, 2012
The Met Fifth facade
The first generation of modern Egyptian artists was driven by a renewed appreciation of their national patrimony and the return to ancient pharaonic art detached from any African, Arab, or religious cultural references.
Salwa Mikdadi
October 1, 2004
The Met Fifth facade
Alfred Lucas, one of the foremost early researchers in the study of ancient Egyptian technology, correctly surmised that the vast majority of such colorations resulted from fortuitous tarnishing of silver-bearing gold and also recognized correctly that a smaller group of objects bearing a distinctly different red coloration represented another phenomenon altogether.
Deborah Schorsch and Tony Frantz
March 1, 2007
The Met Fifth facade
Examining Egyptian art during these 300 years reveals strong continuities in its traditions but also interactions with Greek art, whose forms and styles swept the world with Alexander’s armies.
Marsha Hill
October 1, 2016
The Met Fifth facade
Although turquoise is closely linked with Egyptian culture in scholarly and popular perceptions, it was, in fact, a rare commodity in ancient Egypt.
Deborah Schorsch
April 1, 2018
The Met Fifth facade
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