Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Numerous colossal statues ... smiling features.” To the ancient Egyptians, pharaohs were gods. What could this one have done to warrant such blasphemy?

Ancient Egyptian art and design includes painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, furniture, textiles and other material objects produced by the civilization living in the Nile Valley from roughly ...

They mark the site of the ancient ... century B.C. queen Amanishakheto were stolen in 1834 by Guiseppe Ferlini. Today they are on display in the State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, and the ...