Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: West Wall – Old Kingdom – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/577369
Geography: From Egypt, Memphite Region, Saqqara, North of the Djoser pyramid complex
Geography: From Egypt, Memphite Region, Saqqara, North of the Djoser pyramid complex
“Upper and Lower Egypt are reunited by Mentuhotep II who establishes the capital at Thebes. Egypt is briefly ruled by competing dynasties from western Asia, but reunification occurs again under Ahmose I. Hatshepsut, the most powerful female ruler of pharaonic history, builds her unique funerary temple in western Thebes. After the reign of Ramesses III, Egypt’s power gradually declines, leading to the Third Intermediate Period.”
Egyptian culture, marked by royal building campaigns unequaled since the time of the pyramids
Geography: From Egypt, Memphite Region, Saqqara, North of the Djoser pyramid complex
Geography: From Egypt, Memphite Region, Lisht North, cemetery south of pyramid below
Almost thirty-three centuries ago, a young man named Khonsu became a “servant in the Place of Truth”—a designation that identified members of the crew of artisans who carved and decorated the royal tombs of the New Kingdom.
vaulted, above-ground offering chapels that were topped by miniature, steep-sided pyramids
A new opera at The Met Cloisters reinterprets the Mexican writer’s magnum opus.
I think those were some of the things that stuck out to me: the pyramids, the stag
A pair of clappers could be played either with both hands or with just one. That this pair was played one-handed is indicated by the holes near the rounded ends, which show slight traces of wear caused by rubbing from an attached string
Geography: From Egypt, Memphite Region, Lisht North, cemetery south of pyramid below
Search art at the Metropolitan Museum.
women walking to the right carrying goods and children, child in a walker at right, pyramids
Paleontological Analysis of Sacrificial Victims at the Pyramid of the Moon, Moche
Olmec artists were revolutionary for their time, establishing the first major widespread styles in Mesoamerica, laying the foundation for later innovation from the central Mexican metropolis of Teotihuacan south to the Maya area.
To the east, people built a complex of platforms and a large pyramid at the site