The Met...Egyptian Style.

A week ago I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC...right in Central Park.  I spent six hours there.  Along with four hours in the Museum of Natural History the day before, and lots of pavement pounding roaming the city, I am just now getting my back, feet, and legs back to normal.  It's hell getting old!  But it was only my second visit to NYC and I was NOT going to get cheated.  The Met is so vast, one cannot see it in a day even if he/she is a trathlete.  And it can't be blogged in one post.  Thus I will make several posts...probably at least three...of various parts of the museum.  You start with the ancient Egyptian wing.  The treasures are innumerable.  These arrow points resemble those found in the US and Canada, made by American Indians.  But they are Egyptian, and 6-8 thousand years old.  The North American Indians were manufacturing similar items at the same time, an ocean away.  Goes to show that humans can develop similar technology to meet their needs, no matter where they are.

The Met has countless examples of Egyptian art, many with at least some of the original coloring.

Portraits and hieroglyphics.

The next panel tells the story of this one.  A tomb was discovered that had 24 model boats in it...over three thousand years old!  Quite remarkable.

Blow up the pic to get the story behind the model boats.

I gotta say, the Egyptians knew how to paint and sculpt beautiful women.

The jackal god Anubis,  looking fresh.

These funerary urns were placed in tombs.  They contained body parts such as the heart and liver.

Mummy sarcophagi.

Here's some serious bling!  Solid gold slippers and finger caps.  

A beautiful sculpture, with hieroglyphics.  I love this stuff!

And...a mummy.