I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art trip and i saw the cultural halls which include Egyptian art and Greek art. I want to highlight the Egyptian culture.
Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North Africa that include the Sinai Peninsula, a land bridge to Asia. Covering an area of about 1,001,450 spuare kilometers (386.660 sq mi), Egypt boards Libya to the west, sudan to the south and the aza strip and Israil to the east. The Northern coast borders the Mediterranean sea; the eastern coast borders the Red Sea.
Ancient Egypt was a civilization in eastern North Africa concentrated along the middle to lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern nation of Egypt. The civilization began around 3150 BC with the political unification of upper and lower Egypt under the first pharaoh, and it developed over the next three millennia. The Metropolitian Museum's collection of Egyptian art is one of the finest and most comprehensive outside Egypt. Consisting largly of pieces excavated by the Museum's curators and archaeologists, the collection is particularly rich in the arts of the middle kKingdom (ca. 2000-1640 B.C) and early New Kingdom (ca. 1550- 1300 B.C) and in the funerary arts of the third intermidiate and Late Periods ( 1st millenennium B.C)
From 1906 to 1936, the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Egyptian Art conducted excavations at several sites in Egypt. During these three decades, while working in the cemeteries in western Thebes, across the Nile river from the modern city of Luxor, the museum's archaeologists uncovered a number of intract tombs belonging to nonroval individuals. By the terms of the Museum's contract with the Egyptian Antiquities service, the finds from these tombs were divided, with approximately half going to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and half coming to New York.
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