Egyptian Art
One of the world's finest collections of ancient Egyptian art — 26,000 objects covering Predynastic Egypt through the Byzantine period.
An entire ancient world, kept for the next life.
o civilization invested more art in the refusal of death than ancient Egypt, and few museums hold its evidence so completely — 26,000 objects from the predynastic dawn to the Byzantine dusk, much of it made expressly to be sealed away forever.
Walk from a tomb model of a working bakery to a queen's jewelry and a temple reassembled stone by stone, and the logic emerges: these were not decorations but provisions, packed for an eternity the Egyptians fully expected to arrive.
