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Ancient Afghanistan—at the crossroads of major trade routes and the focus of invasions by great powers and nomadic migrations—was home to some of the most complex, rich, and original civilizations on the continent of Asia. This exhibition celebrates the unique role of Afghanistan as a center for both the reception of diverse cultural elements and the creation of original styles of art that combine multiple stylistic materials.
Exploration of the area led to the excavation of Aï Khanum by French archaeologists

Sean Connelly’s Spheric Oceania offers an alternative cartography, mapping Oceania as a cosmic container of ancestral connection.
Two renowned Pacific scholars Albert Wendt and Epeli Hau‘ofa led the charge in insisting

The New York Dutch Room is a main chamber, or groote kaner in Dutch, and comes from a house built in 1751 for Daniel Pieter Winne, whose ancestors moved to Rensselaerswyck from Flanders via Curacao in 1643.
A door within the stair structure led to the cellar.

Hellenistic kings became prominent patrons of the arts, commissioning public works of architecture and sculpture, as well as private luxury items that demonstrated their wealth and taste.
and cultural exchanges, and the greater mobility of goldsmiths and silversmiths, led

Georgian design, which was characterized by an adherence to theories of order, symmetry, and proportion drawn from classical models during the Renaissance, represented a significant departure from earlier English decorative traditions.
ruins, followed by their publication and wide circulation in books and prints, led

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
model; the “Futura" guitar owned by blues guitarist Ponty Gonzalez around 1956 that led

After several centuries of obscurity and even loss of independence from around 1400 B.C., Assyria’s fortunes revived in the reign of Ashur-uballit I.
Struggles for the throne led to the king’s assassination and a series of short-lived

By the middle of the third millennium B.C., cuneiform primarily written on clay tablets was used for a vast array of economic, religious, political, literary, and scholarly documents.
dominated by large temple estates whose need for accounting and disbursing of revenues led

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
its Golden Age, under the emperor Justinian, the wealth and power of Byzantium led

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
This quest for metals—copper, tin, silver, and gold—was the driving force that led