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How Do Artworks Last for Thousands of Years?

October 20, 2023
Take a journey in The Met’s time machine and learn how some objects can last for hundreds of thousands of years!
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Jeweled Elegance

February 11, 2015

By Holly Phillips

Holly Phillips, associate manager for acquisitions in Watson Library, discusses the extensive collection of Art Deco jewelry books in the library's holdings.
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The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III, Dahshur: Queens and Princesses

October 1, 2004

By Adela Oppenheim

All of the pyramids belonging to royal women had small chapels dedicated to the cult of the deceased.
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If You're Selling, I'm Buying: A Sample Book Sampler

August 26, 2015

By Tamara Fultz

Associate Museum Librarian Tamara Fultz looks at some of the more colorful sample books in Watson Library's special collections.
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Berlin Lends Colossal Statue of Pharaoh to
Metropolitan Museum for Ten Years

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Travel Back in Time: Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World

May 25, 2016

By Anouk and Séan Hemingway

#MetKids Reporter Anouk, age 8, interviews Curator Séan Hemingway to find out more about the exhibition Pergamon and Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World.
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Roman Glass

October 1, 2003

By Rosemarie Trentinella

Glass was present in nearly every aspect of daily life—from a lady’s morning toilette to a merchant’s afternoon business dealings to the evening cena, or dinner.
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Ancient Greek Colonization and Trade and their Influence on Greek Art

July 1, 2007

By Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway

The ancient Greeks were active seafarers seeking opportunities for trade and founding new independent cities at coastal sites across the Mediterranean Sea.
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Luxury Arts of Rome

February 1, 2009

By Christopher S. Lightfoot

In addition to spending fortunes on sumptuous villas, lavish entertainment, fashionable clothes, and entourages of slaves and hangers-on, men and women in high Roman society furnished themselves with a range of expensive personal items.
Press Release

The Met to Present First Major Exhibition on the Connections between African and Byzantine Art

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Jewish Woman of Algiers

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier (French, 1827–1905)

Date: 1862
Accession Number: 2006.113a–c

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Jeweled Bracelet (one of pair)

Date: 500–700
Accession Number: 17.190.1670

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Table clock with calendar

Case and enamel design by the Firm of Lucien Falize (French, Paris 1839–1897 Paris)

Date: 1881
Accession Number: 1991.113a–f

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Jeweled Bracelet (one of pair)

Date: 500–700
Accession Number: 17.190.1671

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Gold aurei of the Twelve Caesars

Date: ca. 69–96 CE
Accession Number: 67.265.8a–f

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Gold aurei of the Twelve Caesars

Date: ca. 46 BCE–96 CE
Accession Number: 67.265.7a–f

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Brooch (part of a set)

Date: ca. 1830
Accession Number: 32.100.321

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Pair of earrings (part of a set)

Date: ca. 1830
Accession Number: 32.100.318, .319

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Pectoral cross

Hemmerle (German, 1893–present)

Date: 1900
Accession Number: 2018.866

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Gold ring set with garnets and amethysts

Date: 2nd century BCE
Accession Number: 23.160.2