While the origin of many concepts, practices, and monuments can be traced to earlier periods, it was during the Old Kingdom that they developed into the forms that would characterize and influence the rest of pharaonic history.
(ca. 2490–2472 B.C.), who built the other two pyramids at Giza, there seems to have
Despite its grandeur, the monument seemed so personal, so intimate and melancholic.
Nearly thirteen feet tall, it would have been brightly painted when first raised
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Palladino 1994 The sumptuous illuminated manuscripts of Early Renaissance Florence have
Publishing and Marketing Assistant Rachel High discusses the breadth of the Museum’s collection of musical instruments with J. Kenneth Moore, Frederick P. Rose Curator in Charge of the Department of Musical Instruments.
Kenneth Moore: There are several art museums that have musical instrument collections
Assistant Horticulturist Carly Still recounts a recent trip to Chile, where she observed the annual harvest of almonds at a local orchard.
They have been growing almonds and much more since 1963.
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
contents About the authors For successive generations the Princes of Liechtenstein have
A modernist in the true sense of the word, Chanel ascribed primacy to function and materials. While a straight, linear silhouette characterizes her designs of the 1920s, her dresses of the 1930s appear more feminine and romantic. Also on display Chanel The
exhibition also focuses on the iconography of the Chanel style that, over time, have
The painting would have functioned as an aid to individual prayer and contemplation
Managing Horticulturist Caleb Leech discusses the uses of medieval cereal grains and compares them to their descendants.
Each field of medieval grains would have had evolved in the truest Darwinian sense
There, evidence of gold sheeting believed to have adorned a long-disintegrated wood
