The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Multiple artists/makers 1924 ‚Great Builders‘ (figures engaged in building a pyramid
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
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
Search art at the Metropolitan Museum.
women walking to the right carrying goods and children, child in a walker at right, pyramids
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids Various authors 1999 Free to download
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
authors 2001 Free to download Download PDF Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids
Assistant Curator James Doyle highlights luxury goods featured in Golden Kingdoms that were used in ritual offerings made to the Sacred Cenote at Chichén Itzá.
In fact, the city, with its iconic pyramids and temples covered in elaborate sculptural
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
The 1.5-mile-long Avenue of the Dead—oriented north toward the Pyramid of the Moon
This beautifully crafted figure is constructed from 16 separate pieces of wood (14 of which are extant) attached with dowels, mortise and tenons, adhesive, and plaster. Starting at the top, the sections are as follows: crown; head, torso and right leg; left leg; wedge between left leg and body; right arm; left arm; left forearm; right forefoot; left forefoot; wedge between fore and back left foot; front kilt section; back kilt section; beard (now missing); crook in left hand; scepter? (now missing) in right hand; and base
The ensemble was discovered in 1914 in the area surrounding the pyramid of Senwosret
