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Learn about past excavations by the Department of Egyptian Art.
Catharine H. Roehrig
March 16, 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
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
Explore facsimile installations from the Museum’s Egyptian Expedition.
November 19, 2020
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 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
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
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
In ancient Egypt, objects created with faience were considered magical, filled with the undying shimmer of the sun, and imbued with the powers of rebirth.
Carolyn Riccardelli
December 1, 2017
Tombs provide us with invaluable information about the lives of the ancient Egyptians.
Catharine H. Roehrig
October 1, 2004