For my final project, I was inspired by an in-class discussion on mummies to research more about the ethics of […] Read More
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by Erin Meador Interactive presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tsyCPQuQmTh3BKa8ZdEvJJ5pDGB7Q7V4xGTN-vqfp-s/edit?usp=sharing For my final project, I was inspired to write about the hidden truth that […] Read More
Throughout these slides, I will be walking through the mistreatment of Ancient Egyptian artifacts from museums. Because of such inappropriate […] Read More
Cycladic marble figurines that appeared as early as the sixth millennium B.C. are known for their beauty, simplicity, and their […] Read More
A majorly overlooked topic, but an increasingly more important one, when considering past art is dissecting how museums today obtained […] Read More
All semester, we have been learning about repatriation and the many artifacts that, despite being requested back to their homelands, […] Read More
Laocoön ~2,057 4,265 miles away About Me You’ve probably already heard of me, but I doubt you know my whole […] Read More
It All Started With a Car Crash In August 1995, a man named Pasquale Camera was killed in a car […] Read More
The vows: I, the Nike of Samothrace, take you Phil Knight, as my brand ambassador, to have and to hold… […] Read More
Like many others, I was fascinated when I first saw the King Tut Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art […] Read More
A message from the afterlife by Nebamun’s all-knowing Ancient Egyptian painters. Dear British Museum, It has come to our attention […] Read More
Growing up, I would take trips to the Smithsonian and revel in artifacts from all over the world. I would […] Read More
PG-13 – 1801 – Repatriation/Antiquity – 220yrs Following the events of French and British occupation in Egypt (turn of the […] Read More
Would you make a good Curator for Provenance? Play this game to find out if museums would hire you! For […] Read More
Artist Michael Rakowitz’s new exhibition is full of gorgeous paper mache recreations of lost Iraqi artifacts, alongside major gaps in […] Read More
Archaic, the Iraq pavilion at the Venice Biennale, was presented by the Ruya Foundation in 2017. The pavilion includes works […] Read More
Sophie and The Temple The Temple of Dendur was an object of my imagination. To a shorter-than-average kid, it seemed […] Read More
(Allegedly) found on a wall in dwellings in Çatalhöyük, Turkey, this painting could be the first known landscape painting done by […] Read More
Human? Lion? Mythic-woman lioness? How can this tiny 5,000-year-old limestone anthropomorphic sculpture be so powerful yet so modern at the […] Read More
Iraqi National Museum Deputy Director Muhsin Hasan Grieves the Loss of Irreplaceable Artifacts Wild Beasts Escape Their Spotlight On the […] Read More
Ok, we’re actually going to skip the “caves” this year, although I highly recommend this film if you want to […] Read More
Today we will look closely at two more monuments intended to glorify kings, created about 500 years apart. Building on […] Read More
Why are so many of the objects we studied in this unit in European or American museums? Why do terrorist […] Read More
Two topics today: 1) Why did millions of Americans stand in line for up to five hours to catch a […] Read More
One of the most innovative and beautiful buildings in the world has meant many things to many people over the […] Read More