A fascinating selection of works created during the prosperous reign of Hatshepsut, the great female pharaoh of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty.
first important female ruler known to history, lived a thousand years after the pyramids
La Venta’s rulers oversaw a burgeoning economy that included trade in exotic materials such as greenstones, much of which was buried in the elaborate offerings of Complex A.
At some thirty meters tall, the Great Pyramid divides the site into northern and
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Name Panels from the Inner Wall of Senwosret I’s Pyramid Complex ca. 1961–1917
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the form of a solar disk French 14th and 15th century Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid
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
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
oldest first) Title (a-z) Title (z-a) Relevance Egyptian Art in the Age of the 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
In less than 200 years, [Tenochtitlan] evolved from a small settlement on an island in the western swamps of Lake Texcoco into the powerful political, economic, and religious center of the greatest empire of Precolumbian Mexico.
Of astounding beauty and impressive scale, its towering pyramids were painted in
Guanajuato, Mexico, 1886‒Mexico City, 1957
: a basalt stone structure, built on a lava bed, that resembles a pre-Columbian pyramid
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women walking to the right carrying goods and children, child in a walker at right, pyramids
