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So, he’s holding a copper plate that would have been covered in a waxy kind of
Get a handle on palm-sized ephemera in The Met collection.
Few inventions have changed the world the way paper has.
Explore The Met’s excavations at Nishapur, a city in northeastern Iran. Related material is on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in galleries 452 and 453.
ninth and thirteenth centuries, at Nishapur’s peak, its population is believed to have
The rediscovery of Nimrud and its sculptures was one of the great archaeological events of the nineteenth century, and since that time the site has been recognized as one of the most important in Iraq.
period, Nimrud was home to multiple Assyrian palaces and temples, all of which have
The exhibition features jars, lids, bowls, floral collars, linen sheets, and bandages that were used at the pharaoh’s mummification and the rites associated with his burial, as well as related objects such as a sculpted head of the youthful Tutankhamun Although Historical Often
He also suggested that the animal bones, pottery, and collars might have come from
“Between 8000 and 2000 B.C., western North Africa moved from isolation to connection with the peoples of the Mediterranean and western Europe. As in those regions, agriculture and pottery were important new technologies.”
Scholars have not developed a method for determining when this rock art was made,
Found at Colle del Capitano near Monteleone di Spoleto by Isidoro Vannozzi on February 8, 1902 (Scientific American 1903, p. 385; Robinson 1906, p. 83). 1902, discovered by Isidoro Vannozzi; [purchased by Benedetto Petrangeli from I
None seems to have been used for fighting in battle.
Continuing archaeological excavations and study of ballgame-related objects promise to shine new light on this topic, as well as on other aspects of the ballgame, a long-lived and deeply meaningful Mesoamerican tradition.
More than 1,500 ballcourts have been discovered in Mesoamerica.
The ceremony of capac hucha, or “royal obligation” in Quechua, reportedly occurred to mark natural events like a drought or the accession or death of an Inca ruler.
In recent decades, excavation teams have recovered human bodies deposited in bundles
Gothic ivory carvings of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries took many forms, including diptychs, triptychs, caskets, combs, and mirror backs. One of the most exceptional objects, however, is the ivory booklet
Except for the two painted leaves, all have raised edges.
