The wrapping with linen changed forever the shape of the human body and created a new being of divine character that was believed to be able to live forever.
The Mummification Process The mummification of King Tutankhamun’s body may have been
Philippe de Montebello, then director of The Met, discusses the issue of works of art confiscated by the Nazis during World War II.
Philippe de Montebello: However foul and vividly recalled World War II-era thefts may have
Suit up as we undress the complex legacy of linen.
You have a word for “King’s wife.”
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
drawings and prints, dating from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, have
First explored in 1925, La Venta has provided some of the most important archaeological finds from ancient Mesoamerica.
Recent excavations have established that small villages in the immediate area were
C. Griffith Mann, Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, introduces the exhibition Treasures and Talismans: Rings from the Griffin Collection and discusses the process of refurbishing the Glass Gallery for the installation.
Inside the museum, we have opened the new exhibition Treasures and Talismans: Rings
Internships for graduate students in The Met’s Department of Objects Conservation, a dynamic and diverse department with over twenty-five full-time conservators. Interns work alongside and learn from conservators under whose supervision they carry out in-depth treatment on a broad range of materials. These internships are unpaid.
Program Information Conservation training programs around the world have various
Deirdre Larkin, managing horticulturalist of The Met Cloisters, discusses the origins of the Date palm and its significance in medieval art and life.
Date palms have provided an important food, an intoxicating liquor, a sweetener,
and deposited as a huaca, a Quechua and Aymara term for a sacred being, and may have
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.
The preceding Old Kingdom appears to have been an age of supreme confidence—at least
