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Related exhibition: Haremhab, The General Who Became King November 16, 2010—July 4, 2011 Geoffrey Thorndike Martin, Edwards Professor of Egyptology and Philology Emeritus, University College London, and Fellow Commoner, Christ's College...

Nicholas Reeves, Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellow, Department of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art The magnificent gold headpiece from Tutankhamun's tomb is the best-known Egyptian artwork in the world today...

http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/sustenance Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/statue-of-an-offering-bearer-egypt-upper-egypt-thebes-southern-asasif-tomb-of-meketre-20.3.7 "They've captured her in a moment in...

http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/divinity Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/arhat-luohan-china-21.76 "It looks like someone you might know, someone you might talk to." 82nd & Fifth invites 100 curators from...

http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/stubborn Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/alexander-danilovich-menshikov-1673%E2%80%931729-russian-saint-petersburg-1996.7 "He's like the bouncer of Buddhism." 82nd & Fifth...

http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/snapshot Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/statue-of-two-men-and-a-boy-that-served-as-a-domestic-icon-egypt-11.150.21 "You start saying, 'Who were they, and what are their personalities?'"...

http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/precaution Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/hippopotamus-egypt-17.190.1720 A lot of us are inclined to only see his cute side, but in fact there is a lot more to him than that...

http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/idolized Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/cult-image-of-the-god-ptah-egypt-2007.24 "This piece spoke to me when I realized, you don't need a single written word, three thousand...

http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/hyperreality Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/relief-panel-assyrian-32.143.4 "That infinite image creates an endless echoing, which is almost dizzying and supernatural."...

http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/bricks Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/two-panels-with-striding-lions-babylonian-31.13.1-.2 "It always had this possibility to come alive in a very real sense." 82nd &...