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  • An Overview of The Met’s Collection of Ancient Egyptian Art

    An Overview of The Met’s Collection of Ancient Egyptian Art

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    The Metropolitan Museum of Art houses an impressive collection of around 30,000 pieces of ancient Egyptian art, spanning from approximately 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A notable portion of this collection is the result of the museum’s three decades of archaeological endeavors in Egypt, which began in 1906 due to a rising interest…