The Met's collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from the Paleolithic to the Roman period (ca. 300,000 B.C.– A.D. 4th century).

Art of the First Cities in the Third Millennium B.C. Art of the Hellenistic Age and the Hellenistic Tradition Art, Architecture, and the City in the Reign of Amenhotep IV / Akhenaten (ca. 1353–1336 B.C.) Egypt in the Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1070–664 B.C.) Greek Hydriai (Water Jars) and Their Artistic Decoration Harry Burton (1879–1940): The Pharaoh’s Photographer The Middle ...

2010年10月19日 · Since 2002, galleries housing Predynastic and Early Dynastic art, the Old Kingdom tombs of Perneb and Raemkai, and the art of Roman Egypt were reconceived to provide a new gateway to the Museum's Egyptian collection.

2018年5月28日 · Visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art should be at the top of your agenda when planning a trip to New York City. The Metropolitan has one of the finest art collections in the world, and the size and scope of their Egyptian collection is astounding.

A thorough visit to the Egyptian galleries walks you through the long history of Egyptian culture with artifacts detailing religious, economic, political and family traditions.

2024年11月22日 · Join us each week in the Performance Pyramid— embedded within the exhibition Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt 1876–Now —to experience music, dance, and performance art that draw on ancient Egyptian themes.

2025年1月17日 · Join us each week in the Performance Pyramid— embedded within the exhibition Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt 1876–Now —to experience music, dance, and performance art that draw on ancient Egyptian themes.

THE FUNCTION OF ART IN ANCIENT EGYPT us and magical purposes. Its symbols and functions reveal the Egyptians’ beliefs about the world and their attempts to und

2024年11月13日 · This exhibition illuminates how modern Black artists and cultural figures asserted affinity with ancient Egypt—in opposition to the prevailing definition of 19th-century Egyptology that distinguished ancient Egypt from “Black Africa” and instead characterized it as proto-European—from the late 19th century to the efflorescence of ...

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now examines how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt through visual art, sculpture, literature, music, scholarship, religion, politics, and performance.