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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 &...

http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/she Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/figure-of-a-seated-court-lady-china-2010.120 "It also tells us a lot about human nature, about this constant and eternal pursuit of beauty."...