Egypt
Place yourself in an ancient world. On September 28th, 2000 my boyfriend and myself attended the Metropolitan Museum of Art located in New York City, to visit an archeological exhibit on Egyptian Art. Located in the first floor off 83rd street and Fifth Avenue, the exhibit consists of thirty-two galleries each illustrating a time period in Egyptian history. It is difficult to elucidate the colossal impact this exhibit delineates. But given the chance in this essay, I will try to depict to the reader how The Metropolitan Museum of Art has successfully designed an overall picture that reflects the aesthetic values, history, religious beliefs, and daily life of the ancient Egyptians over the entire course of their great civilization.Within the walls of this vault-like exhibit area, you will find precious jewels, stone carvings and giant tombs. While many of the precious pieces of art lie behind glass walls, some of the most impressive stone carvings and slabs lie right in the middle of the floor, with nothing between you but the temptation to touch. I was transported to a world long gone, and I found myself feeling faint. The collection consists of approximately 36,000 objects dating from the Paleolithic to the Roman period
5 hours viewing the first half of the exhibition. What I remember distinctly after this is in Galleries 27 & 28 - Macedonian - Ptolemaic Period and this is the papyrus illustrating the Egyptian Book of the Dead in its entirety. Upon entering Gallery 6- Amenemhat I, I noticed a brief description depicting the late 11th Dynasty to Amenemhat I located on the wall. All located behind glass walls and with their appropriate markers explaining a little about the origin and assumption or facts about what the piece meant. Locating the beginning of the exhibit was a bit difficult. All were about 9-12 feet in length (this is an assumption because no where was this information available) and were recovered at Deir el Bahri. This is in sharp contrast to the careworn expression found in royal portraits of the second half of the twelfth dynasty. Another aspect that bothered me was the language used in the markers and labels used in depicting the items. Robins at the information desk, the collection derived from the Museum's thirty-five years of archaeological work in Egypt beginning in 1906 by Mr. To me, this was one of the most beautiful sections of the exhibition.
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