Egyptian, Nubian, and ancient Near Eastern art

Emily Whitehead, PhD candidate in the Art History Department, and Kaitlyn Wright, Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Fellow in Objects Conservation, discuss a model of a wooden Egyptian boat from the Middle Kingdom.

In this video, Dr. Melinda Hartwig, Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian and Near Eastern Art, takes viewers into the Carlos Museum galleries to share the latest research on objects in the collection.

The Carlos Museum’s Anne Cox Chambers Court is the best place in the Southeast to see and experience ancient Egyptian funerary art. It’s how many friends of the Carlos first become acquainted with the museum.

Egyptian art is full of the snakes that inhabited the natural world, but the Egyptians also imagined fantastical snakes in the Underworld.

The Carlos Museum has received the Senusret Collection as a centennial gift from the Georges Ricard Foundation.

In 1921, William Arthur Shelton, a professor in Emory's Candler School of Theology, purchased an Old Kingdom mummy from the sacred site of Abydos in Middle Egypt.