Museums

Where the objects live now, which is the facet that carries provenance because provenance is a question about location. The Ishtar Gate reassembled in Berlin, the British Museum Assyrian galleries, the Louvre Khorsabad court, the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Penn, ISAC in Chicago, the Sulaymaniyah Museum. Galleries, storerooms, conservation labs and the labels themselves. Every object here from the Metropolitan carries its accession number and the museum's own credit line, so a viewer can see how it was acquired rather than only that it is held.

Part of Mesopotamia

257 moments in this segment.

1. 1572 - Philips Galle, Babylons mure, 1572, KKSgb10002-6, Statens Museum for Kunst. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
2. 1664 - Entrée d'Alexandre dans Babylone - Charles Lebrun - Musée du Louvre Peintures INV 2898 ; MR 1919. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
3. 1665 - Charles Le Brun - Entry of Alexander into Babylon. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
4. 1859 - Acacia Bead Girdle of Senebtisi. An Egyptian object in a museum collection. The image is catalogued to 1859.
5. 1887 - Bag-shaped jar with ridged neck. An Egyptian object in a museum collection, museums record 4.
6. 1887 - Ointment jar of Sithathoryunet. An Egyptian object in a museum collection. Commons dates the file to 1887.
7. 1887 - Libation jar with with lid. An Egyptian object in a museum collection. The record is dated 1887, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
8. 1887 - Cylindrical unguent vase with a lid. An Egyptian object in a museum collection, museums record 5.
9. 1887 - Cowrie Shell Girdle of Sithathoryunet. An Egyptian object in a museum collection. The image is catalogued to 1887.
10. 1894 - Ancient Egyptian plummet amulet, Late Period, Dynasty 26-31 (664-332 BCE), AIC 1894.185. Ancient Egyptian amulet of a Plummet 664 BCE-332 BCE Hematite 1.6 × 2.2 × 0.6 cm (5/8 × 7/8 × 1/4 in.) Accession number: 1894.185. The image is catalogued to 1894.
11. 1908 - 3 kiln supports for faience production (08.205.7a-c) EGDP029050. Period: Roman Period Date: 30 B.C.-A.D. 346 Geography: From Egypt, BSAE excavations Medium: Pottery, faience Dimensions: L. 0.9 to 1.6 cm Credit Line: Gift of The Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1908 Object Number: 08.205.7a-c Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art.
12. 1915 - British Museum LCCN2014706220. Title: British Museum Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. Commons dates the file to 1915.
13. 1980 - Zar amulet. Rechthoekige zar amulet met de tekst 'ma sha Allah' (wat God wil) en drie belletjes. Zar amuletten zijn meestal rond of druppelvormig en gemaakt van een zilverlegering. Aan de onderrand hangt een -meestal oneven- aantal zilveren belletjes (jalajil). De amuletten hebben vaak aan één zijde een afbeelding van een geest en aan de. The image is catalogued to 1980.
14. 1980 - Necklace of Amulets. An Egyptian object in a museum collection, museums record 8.
15. 1981 - Ointment jar. An Egyptian object in a museum collection. The image is catalogued to 1981.
16. 1981 - Outer coffin of Hapiankhtifi. An Egyptian object in a museum collection. The image is catalogued to 1981, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
17. 1981 - Funerary figurine of Saiah. An Egyptian object in a museum collection, museums record 6.
18. 1985 - 1980s Baghdad, Iraq, Statues and Monuments, Baghdad Museum. Archive footage of Baghdad's statues, monuments and museum in the 1980s. Film of the Iraq Museum before 1991 is scarce, which is part of why the 2003 losses were hard to quantify.
19. 1987 - 1757. 5 1c 135 1f - THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON. 1987. Commons dates the file to 1987.
20. 1999 - A Journey Through the Museum Galleries (1999). A 1999 tour of the Penn Museum galleries. Penn co-funded Woolley's excavation at Ur with the British Museum and holds half the finds under the partage division, including the Bull-Headed Lyre and Puabi's jewellery.
21. 1999 - Treasures From The Royal Tombs of Ur - Revised 1999. Penn Museum's 1999 presentation of treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur. The Ur finds were split three ways between London, Philadelphia and Baghdad under partage.
22. 2007-09-27 - Off The Wall: Nebsen and Nebet-ta. Footage from the galleries, running 2 min.
23. 2008 - CartonnageProstheticToe-BritishMuseum-August19-08. Prosthetic toe made of cartonnage, found on the foot of a mummy from the Third Intermediate period (circa 1070-664 BC). It is one of the earliest known examples of a prosthetic. EA 29996.
24. 2008-09-21 - Art & Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum (MFA Boston). Art and Empire, treasures from Assyria in the British Museum, shown in Boston. Touring exhibitions are how Assyrian material reaches audiences beyond the few cities that hold it.
25. 2009-02-19 - Beyond Babylon - Curatorial Talk - Part 1 of 3. A Met curatorial talk on Beyond Babylon, part one, covering second-millennium exchange across the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. The Amarna letters, written in Akkadian, show diplomacy conducted in Mesopotamian script far outside Mesopotamia.
26. 2009-02-19 - Inside the Gallery—Beyond Babylon, Ancient Near Eastern Art. Inside the Met's Beyond Babylon exhibition of ancient Near Eastern art. The Met's Ancient West Asian Art department, renamed from Ancient Near Eastern, holds Nimrud reliefs, Gudea material and a large cylinder seal collection.
27. 2009-02-19 - Beyond Babylon - Curatorial Talk - Part 3 of 3. Beyond Babylon curatorial talk, part three, at the Metropolitan Museum. The exhibition traced trade and gift exchange rather than a single civilisation.
28. 2009-02-19 - Beyond Babylon - Curatorial Talk - Part 2 of 3. Beyond Babylon curatorial talk, part two. Akkadian cuneiform functioned as the diplomatic lingua franca of the Late Bronze Age, used by courts that spoke nothing like it.
29. 2009-02-19 - Beyond Babylon - Curatorial Talk - Part 2 of 3. Footage from the galleries, running 6 min.
30. 2009 - The hidden treasures of the Iraqi National Museum. A walk through the hidden treasures of the Iraqi National Museum. The objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for any archive to show, because no Iraqi institution runs an open-access image programme, while the objects that left are photographed freely.
31. 2009 - Treasures of Iraq's national museum to go online. Iraq's national museum puts its holdings online. Digitisation is the practical route to visibility for a collection that is physically hard to reach.
32. 2009-09-04 - Cultural Heritage Project in Iraq - Part One. Penn Museum's cultural heritage project in Iraq, part one. American museums that hold Iraqi material have taken on training and conservation roles in Iraq itself.
33. 2009-11-06 - Iraq's Ancient Past. Penn Museum curators on Iraq's ancient past and the museum's long involvement in it. The partage system, under which excavators divided finds with the host country, ended in Iraq with the 1936 antiquities law.
34. 2010 - London - Great Russell Street - British Museum - Egyptian Sculpture - View SE. Held on Wikimedia Commons, it documents an Egyptian object in a museum collection, museums record 2.
35. 2010-08-10 - The Tower of Babel with British Museum curator Irving Finkel. Irving Finkel on the Tower of Babel and the ziggurat Etemenanki at Babylon. Etemenanki was real and really fell into ruin, but identifying it as the specific structure behind Genesis 11 is a scholarly hypothesis, and the confusion-of-tongues element is not attested in any Mesopotamian source.
36. 2011-01-18 - Die geretteten Götter aus dem Palast vom Tell-Halaf | Interview mit Eva Strommenger. Eva Strommenger on the Tell Halaf sculptures in Berlin, shattered by a wartime bomb and painstakingly reassembled from thousands of fragments. Tell Halaf is in Syria and its sculpture is Aramaean rather than Assyrian, but the reassembly is a landmark of museum conservation.
37. 2011-04-25 - Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur. 1920s.
38. 2011 - British Museum Egypt. An Egyptian object in a museum collection. The image is catalogued to 2011.
39. 2011 - Dr. Donny George crop. Donny George Youkhanna, the Iraqi archaeologist who ran the Iraq Museum through the 2003 looting and the recovery programme that followed, and who later left Iraq under threat.
40. 2011 - Record of 300 clothing items issued to workmen, Third Dynasty of Ur, Sumeria, c. 2035 BC - Royal Ontario Museum - DSC09608. Exhibit in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This exhibit is old enough so that it is in the public domain, and photography was permitted in the museum. I took this photograph and release it into the public domain. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
41. 2011-06-16 - Iraq's Ancient Past. A short Penn Museum piece on Iraq's ancient past. Objects that left Iraq under partage are the easiest for museums to display; those that stayed are the hardest to show, which shapes what any archive like this can contain.
42. 2011-06-16 - Introduction to the Highlights Tour of the Penn Museum. An introduction to the Penn Museum highlights tour. Penn holds the largest collection of Sumerian literary tablets in the world, most of it from the nineteenth-century excavations at Nippur.
43. 2011-08-01 - Pergamonmuseum | Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (DE/EN). The Pergamonmuseum in Berlin, home of the reconstructed Ishtar Gate. The gate was excavated by Robert Koldewey at Babylon from 1899 and rebuilt in Berlin from its glazed bricks, so the version most people know is a museum construction rather than a standing monument.
44. 2012-02-15 - Babylon: A Wonder of the Ancient World. A Metropolitan Museum lecture on Babylon. No archaeological trace of the Hanging Gardens has ever been found there despite Koldewey's extensive excavation, and Nebuchadnezzar II, who catalogued his building works obsessively, never mentions them.
45. 2012-05-16 - Grand Egyption Museum Conservation Center.Inorganic.Lab. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 14 min.
46. 2013-05-15 - This wooden sculpture has motion and vitality unseen in most Egyptian art | Art, Explained. Filmed in the museum collections, running 2 min.
47. 2013 - File by Alexander Baranov - IMG. A record from an Egyptian object in a museum collection. Commons dates the file to 2013.
48. 2013-08-30 - The Met's unofficial mascot—this tiny hippo named William—has a bit of a dark side | Art, Explained. Footage from the galleries, running 3 min.
49. 2013-09-06 - Decoding the necklace of an Ancient Egyptian princess | Art, Explained. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 3 min.
50. 2014-02-05 - Nubian Museum Tour. Filmed in the museum collections, running 50 min.
51. 2014-02-06 - Highlights from the Edgar and Deborah Jannotta Mesopotamian Gallery by McGuire Gibson PhD. McGuire Gibson walks the Edgar and Deborah Jannotta Mesopotamian Gallery at what is now ISAC in Chicago. The institute holds the Tell Asmar votive hoard and Khorsabad material from its own 1920s and 1930s excavations.
52. 2014-03-14 - Preserving Iraq's Cultural Heritage. 's involvement with Iraq runs from the Nippur expeditions of the 1880s to present conservation partnerships.
53. 2014 - Bronze bands, detail - Shamash Temple, Palace of Sargon II, Khorsabad - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago - DSC07563. Exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
54. 2014 - Akkadian pottery - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago - DSC06977. Exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
55. 2014 - Mitanni or Nuzi ware - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago - DSC07021. Exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
56. 2014 - Straw, Tell Asmar, North Palace Area, hoard 12, Akkadian period, 2350-2150 BC, copper - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago - D. 07325. The Tell Asmar hoard, votive figures buried under the floor of the Square Temple at Eshnunna. They were placed in temples to stand in perpetual prayer on behalf of the donor, which is why the eyes are so large: the worshipper was represented rather than present.
57. 2014 - Kibigia account of Aba-saga Year Five, Month Seven of Amar-Suena, King of Ur - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago - DSC07104. Exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
58. 2014 - Bronze bands - Nabu Temple, Khorsabad - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago - DSC07570. Exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
59. 2014 - Neo-Assyrian glazed ceramics - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago - DSC07034. Exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
60. 2014 - Iron wheels with bronze hubs - Nabu Temple, Palace of Sargon II, Khorsabad, Neo-Assyrian period, 721-705 BC - Oriental Institute Museum, Uni. 07574. Exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
61. 2014 - Ur III administrative texts - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago - DSC06995. Exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
62. 2014 - Bronze bands - Nabu Temple, Khorsabad - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago - DSC07568. Exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
63. 2014 - Metal coils of silver used for currency, Mesopotamia - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago - DSC07273. Exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
64. 2014 - Bed models, Isin-Larsa period, 2000-1800 BC, baked clay, (left) Nippur, Area TA, domestic area, room 223, (right) Tell Asmar, dump - Orienta. 07303. The Tell Asmar hoard, votive figures buried under the floor of the Square Temple at Eshnunna. They were placed in temples to stand in perpetual prayer on behalf of the donor, which is why the eyes are so large: the worshipper was represented rather than present.
65. 2014 - Berlín Ishtar león. 02. Berlín. Pergamon Museum. León de la Puerta de Ishtar. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
66. 2014-07-18 - A new beginning for the Middle East: The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia. The Cyrus Cylinder, a Babylonian foundation record of the Persian conquest of 539 BC, discussed at the British Museum. It is often described as a charter of rights, which is a modern reading imposed on a text that follows a conventional Mesopotamian royal-inscription form.
67. 2015 - British Museum - Room 4. Held on Wikimedia Commons, it documents an Egyptian object in a museum collection. Commons dates the file to 2015, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
68. 2015 - 2. Detail. Coffin base and mummy of priest Iufenamun. The lid belonged to another coffin of. Coffin base and mummy of senior priest Iufenamun (son of Nesypaqashuty). The lid belonged to another coffin of Tjentweretheqau (his grandmother). National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Coffin base and mummy: early 22nd Dynasty, mid-late 10th century BCE. Lid: early 21st Dynasty, late 11th-early 10th century BCE.
69. 2015 - Disk of Enheduanna. Enheduanna, roughly 2285 to 2250 BC, daughter of Sargon of Akkad and en priestess at Ur, is usually called the first named author in history. The claim is seriously contested: every surviving manuscript of the poems attributed to her is an Old Babylonian copy from roughly five hundred years after her lifetime. The alabaster disk excavated by Woolley at Ur, Penn Museum B16665, is the contemporary archaeological anchor. The poems are not.
70. 2015 - Istanbul Ancient Orient Museum Neo-Assyrian plaques on Balawat gate in 2015 16 5626. Bronze plaques for door plating, Shalmanaeser III Period. Wikipedia: Shalmaneser III (Šulmānu-ašarēdu, "the god Shulmanu is pre-eminent") was king of Assyria (859–824 BC), and son of the previous ruler, Ashurnasirpal II. The scenes are the usual: king in chariot, archers, people carrying booty and the like.
71. 2015-07-24 - First phase of Grand Museum of Egypt complete. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 4 min.
72. 2015-10-08 - Middle Kingdom Egyptian Art at the Met. The Metropolitan Museum's director and curators discuss "Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom" (Oct. 12-Jan. 24).
73. 2015-11-23 - Deciphering the world's oldest rule book | Irving Finkel | Curator's Corner S1 Ep1 [PILOT]. Finkel reads the cuneiform rules tablet BM 33333B, which allowed the Royal Game of Ur to be played again after several thousand years. The board itself, BM 120834, came from Woolley's excavation of the Royal Cemetery at Ur.
74. 2015-12-16 - Assyrian king Sargon the 2nd and the city of Dur-Sharrukin. Sargon II and the city of Dur-Sharrukin presented from the Iraq Museum. Khorsabad was built from nothing as a new capital and largely abandoned after Sargon died on campaign.
75. 2016-02-05 - An Archaeological Exhibition Without Archaeology? Miró's Look on Sumerian Masterpieces. Joan Miro's response to Sumerian masterpieces, and an exhibition built around it. Twentieth-century artists drew on Mesopotamian sculpture as it entered European museums.
76. 2016-04-23 - Curator’s tour of the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery (Periscope comments removed). A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 23 min.
77. 2016-04-24 - Curator’s tour of the Enlightenment Gallery (Periscope comments removed). A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 18 min.
78. 2016 - Ancient Egypt Inlaid Gilt Wood Statue. Ancient Egypt Gallery, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com. louvre.fr E 185. The image is catalogued to 2016.
79. 2016 - Ancient Egypt Gold Ring. Ancient Egypt Gallery, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com. The record is dated 2016, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
80. 2016 - Ancient Egypt Bronze & Stone Statues. Ancient Egypt Gallery, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com. The image is catalogued to 2016, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
81. 2016 - Ancient Egypt Bronze or Stone Statues. Ancient Egypt Gallery, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com. It carries a date of 2016, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
82. 2016 - Ancient Egyptian jewelry beads and amulet Penn Museum. An Egyptian object in a museum collection, museums record 7.
83. 2016 - Ancient Egypt Silver Bastet Cat. Ancient Egypt Gallery, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com. louvre.fr E 2533. The record is dated 2016, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
84. 2016 - Ancient Egypt Predynastic Stone Vessels. Ancient Egypt Gallery, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com. Commons dates the file to 2016, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
85. 2016 - Ancient Egypt Faience Relief. Ancient Egypt Gallery, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com. louvre.fr E 32663. The image is catalogued to 2016, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
86. 2016 - Ancient Egypt Early Dynastic Pottery & Stone Tools. Ancient Egypt Gallery, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com. louvre.fr E 21886 support de vase -3100 / -2700 (époque thinite) Lieu de découverte: Abydos E 21886; MG 4387 Département des Antiquités égyptiennes E 21902 jarres à bourrelet -3100 / -2700 (époque thinite) Lieu de. The record is dated 2016, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
87. 2016 - Hieroglyphs on the backpillar of Amenhotep III's statue. There are 2 places where Akhenaten's. Recorded on Commons: hieroglyphs on the back-pillar of Amenhotep III's statue (reigned 1390-1352 BCE). There are 2 places where Akhenaten's agents erased the name Amun, later restored on a deeper surface. It appears on the left in a cartouche enclosing the birth name "Amenhotep", and on the right in the epithet "beloved of Amun-Ra". The British. The image is catalogued to 2016.
88. 2016 - Ancient Egypt Painted Wood Boxes. A record from an Egyptian object in a museum collection. Commons dates the file to 2016.
89. 2016 - Ancient Egypt Stone Statue Head. Ancient Egypt Gallery, Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com. louvre.fr E 10590. The record is dated 2016, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
90. 2016-07-28 - Inside monuments restoration labs of the Grand Egyptian Museum. Footage from the galleries, running 2 min.
91. 2016-12-22 - "THE NUBIA MUSEUM" :: ASWAN, EGYPT. Filmed in the museum collections, running 1h 3m.
92. 2017-04-28 - Tom Scott vs Irving Finkel: The Royal Game of Ur | PLAYTHROUGH | International Tabletop Day 2017. A full playthrough of the Royal Game of Ur in the British Museum, reconstructed from the rules tablet Irving Finkel deciphered. The board is roughly 4,500 years old and the game is playable because a scribe wrote the rules down.
93. 2017 - Egyptian Pottery "Soul House". Ancient Egypt Gallery, British Museum, London, England, UK. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com. Commons dates the file to 2017.
94. 2017 - Egyptian Wooden Boat Model. Ancient Egypt Gallery, British Museum, London, England, UK. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com. The record is dated 2017, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
95. 2017 - Egyptian Granodiorite Naos (Shrine) of Ptolemy VIII & Cleopatra II, Philae, 143-137 BC. Egyptian Sculpture Gallery, British Museum, London, England, UK. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com. It carries a date of 2017, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
96. 2017 - Egyptian Bas Relief. Egyptian Sculpture Gallery, British Museum, London, England, UK. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com. The image is catalogued to 2017, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
97. 2017 - A Child's Grave, Ur. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
98. 2017 - Copper Alloy Axe Head. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
99. 2017 - Electrotype Copy of Gold Helmet of a Warrior King of Ur. (a cast or replica, not the original object). Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
100. 2017 - Electrotype Copy of Gold Dagger & Sheath. (a cast or replica, not the original object). Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
101. 2017 - Library of Ashurbanipal. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
102. 2017 - Monumental basin from Nineveh - Pergamonmuseum - Berlin - Germany 2017. Pergamonmuseum - Berlin - Germany. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
103. 2017-08-10 - National museum Of Iraq. A walk through the National Museum of Iraq. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, because no Iraqi institution runs an open-access image programme.
104. 2017-08-17 - Slemani Museum Sulaymaniyeh Kurdistan Iraq. The Slemani Museum in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It acquired the tablets carrying the fullest known text of Gilgamesh Tablet V, published by Farouk Al-Rawi and Andrew George in 2014.
105. 2017-11-20 - Tentoonstelling Nineveh. A Nineveh exhibition at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden. European museums with smaller Mesopotamian holdings borrow heavily for exhibitions like this.
106. 2018-02-21 - The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 3 min.
107. 2018-03-11 - Ancient Demons with Irving Finkel I Curator's Corner S3 Ep7 #CuratorsCorner. Demons and protective figures in the British Museum's Mesopotamian collections, including the plague demon Pazuzu, whose grotesque head was worn as an amulet precisely because he was thought to drive off the child-killing Lamashtu.
108. 2018 - Pectoral of Senusret III. This extremely rare 12th Dynasty Egyptian Middle Kingdom pectoral dates to the 19th century BCE and was made of gold and semi-precious stones (carnelian, turquoise, amethyst and lapis lazuli). It belonged to Mereret, the daughter of king Senusret III and sister of king Amenemhat III which escaped the attention of ancient tomb. The image is catalogued to 2018.
109. 2018 - Basalt wall slab showing three Assyrian soldiers in procession. From the palace of Tiglath-pileser III at Hadatu, Syria. Ancient Orient Muse. ' tombs found by the Iraqi archaeologist Muzahim Mahmud Hussein between 1988 and 1990, a discovery usually left out of Western tellings. It was bulldozed in 2015, and it was the real catastrophe of that year, more than the Mosul Museum video.
110. 2018 - Detail of the embroidered dress of an Apkallu, showing a pair of 4-legged winged animals. From Nimrud, Iraq. 883-859 BCE. Ancient Orient Mus. ' tombs found by the Iraqi archaeologist Muzahim Mahmud Hussein between 1988 and 1990, a discovery usually left out of Western tellings. It was bulldozed in 2015, and it was the real catastrophe of that year, more than the Mosul Museum video.
111. 2018 - Basalt wall slab showing Assyrian soldiers in procession, holding long spears. From the palace of Tiglath-pileser III at Hadatu, Syria. Anci
112. 2018 - Detail of an embossed scene on bronze plate showing Assyrian army attacking a city. From a Balawat gate, Iraq, 859-824 BCE. Ancient Orient M
113. 2018-06-17 - Mesopotamian ghostbusting with Irving Finkel I Curator's Corner + #CuratorsCorner. Irving Finkel reads Mesopotamian texts for dealing with ghosts. Ritual and omen literature makes up a large share of the surviving cuneiform corpus, alongside the accounting records that dominate the earliest tablets.
114. 2018-11-01 - I am Ashurbanipal. The trailer for the British Museum's 2018 exhibition on Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria from about 669 BC. He is the ruler whose library at Nineveh preserved the Standard Babylonian Gilgamesh, including the Flood Tablet K.3375.
115. 2018-11-15 - 4.1.1. The Iraq National Museum of Baghdad. The Iraq National Museum of Baghdad presented in a university course. The museum holds the Warka Vase, the Mask of Warka, the Bronze Head from Nineveh and the Treasure of Nimrud.
116. 2019-01-06 - British Museum: 360º Tour. A 360-degree tour of the British Museum, including the Assyrian galleries. The museum holds the Flood Tablet, the Lion Hunt, the Lachish reliefs, the Black Obelisk, the Standard of Ur and the Cyrus Cylinder, which is to say most of the canonical Mesopotamian objects.
117. 2019-01-20 - Grand Egyptian Museum Introductory Movie (5 minutes version）. Close to the historical pyramids in Giza area lies the construction site of the Grand Egyptian Museum. The Museum is constructed with the financial and technical support by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
118. 2019-02-03 - Assyria TV in London - I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria. Assyria TV visits the I am Ashurbanipal exhibition in London. Modern Assyrians engage with this material as descendants and not only as an audience.
119. 2019-02-04 - Nineb Lamassu and Carine Harmand, Co-Curator from the British Museum on the Ashurbanipal exhibition. Nineb Lamassu and a British Museum co-curator on the Ashurbanipal exhibition. Involving Assyrian scholars in curating Assyrian material is comparatively recent practice.
120. 2019-02-13 - Nineb Lamassu on Living Assyria in British Museum | 22 February 2019. Nineb Lamassu on living Assyria at the British Museum. The Assyrian community today is a living population with a stake in how this material is presented.
121. 2019-02-15 - British Museum: Ashurbanipal Exhibition – VR. A virtual-reality walkthrough of the British Museum's Ashurbanipal exhibition. Reconstruction and digital display have become the standard way to show Assyrian palaces, whose original colour and architectural context are gone.
122. 2019-02-19 - The palace decoration of Ashurbanipal. The decoration scheme of Ashurbanipal's palace explained in the British Museum's Assyrian rooms. The same king assembled the systematic library at Nineveh from which the Flood Tablet came, so the empire that carved the lion hunts also built the ancient world's most ambitious scholarly collection.
123. 2019-05-08 - Assyrian Ekphrastic Poetry inspired by British Museum’s ‘I am Ashurbanipal’ exhibition.. Assyrian ekphrastic poetry written in response to the British Museum's Ashurbanipal exhibition. Descendant communities respond to these objects as heritage rather than as antiquity.
124. 2019-05-14 - Nubian Museum | Aswan Day Tour - Egypt Attractions Tours. Footage from the galleries, running 1 min.
125. 2019-05-15 - Oriental Institute Museum Tour - May 29, 2019. A walk through the Oriental Institute Museum galleries in Chicago, now ISAC. The colossal Khorsabad lamassu stands in the Mesopotamian hall.
126. 2019 - Grand Egyptian Museum 2019-11-07j. en:Cairo, Egypt: en:Grand Egyptian Museum under construction (November 2019). The image is catalogued to 2019.
127. 2019 - Detail. Upper part of the body of a human-headed and winged apkallu. He wears a diadem with a rosette. From the North-West Palace, Nimrud, I. 9th century BCE. Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany. Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, capital under Ashurnasirpal II and the site of the Northwest Palace, the Nimrud ivories and the queens' tombs found by the Iraqi archaeologist Muzahim Mahmud Hussein between 1988 and 1990, a discovery usually left out of Western tellings. It was bulldozed in 2015, and it was the real catastrophe of that year, more than the Mosul Museum video.
128. 2019 - Old-Babylonian Gallery of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Iraq. The Iraq Museum in Baghdad. The widely reported figure of 170,000 items lost in 2003 is wrong: it came from a miscommunication by the first crews on the scene plus empty cases whose contents curators had removed before the First Gulf War. The accurate figure is around 15,000 items, of which roughly 6,000 had been recovered as of 2009.
129. 2019 - Prehistory Gallery, re-named Behnam Abu Alsoof Gallery, Iraq Museum, Baghdad. The Iraq Museum in Baghdad. The widely reported figure of 170,000 items lost in 2003 is wrong: it came from a miscommunication by the first crews on the scene plus empty cases whose contents curators had removed before the First Gulf War. The accurate figure is around 15,000 items, of which roughly 6,000 had been recovered as of 2009.
130. 2019 - Courtyard of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Iraq. The Iraq Museum in Baghdad. The widely reported figure of 170,000 items lost in 2003 is wrong: it came from a miscommunication by the first crews on the scene plus empty cases whose contents curators had removed before the First Gulf War. The accurate figure is around 15,000 items, of which roughly 6,000 had been recovered as of 2009.
131. 2019 - Prehistory Hall, the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Iraq. The Iraq Museum in Baghdad. The widely reported figure of 170,000 items lost in 2003 is wrong: it came from a miscommunication by the first crews on the scene plus empty cases whose contents curators had removed before the First Gulf War. The accurate figure is around 15,000 items, of which roughly 6,000 had been recovered as of 2009.
132. 2019 - Various inscribed bricks from Mesopotamia, Iraq. Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Iraq. The Iraq Museum in Baghdad. The widely reported figure of 170,000 items lost in 2003 is wrong: it came from a miscommunication by the first crews on the scene plus empty cases whose contents curators had removed before the First Gulf War. The accurate figure is around 15,000 items, of which roughly 6,000 had been recovered as of 2009.
133. 2019 - The Hall of Nimrud Ivories at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Iraq. The Nimrud ivories, carved furniture inlays from the Northwest Palace, many showing Phoenician and Egyptianising styles that arrived as tribute or loot. A large part of the collection was stored in the Iraq Museum basement and suffered water damage.
134. 2019 - A collection of Old-Babylonian terracotta plaques from Mesopotamia, Iraq. Iraq Museum, Baghdad. The Iraq Museum in Baghdad. The widely reported figure of 170,000 items lost in 2003 is wrong: it came from a miscommunication by the first crews on the scene plus empty cases whose contents curators had removed before the First Gulf War. The accurate figure is around 15,000 items, of which roughly 6,000 had been recovered as of 2009.
135. 2019 - 1st-millennium BCE grave, Yasin Tepe, Shahrizor Plain, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq. 1st-millennium BCE grave at Yasin Tepe, Shahrizor Plain, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq. Probably Neo-Assyrian. The content of the grave, such as the coffin, is in the Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
136. 2019 - Istanbul Ancient Orient Museum Neo-Assyrian plaques on Balawat gate in 2019 09 2201. Bronze plaques for door plating, Shalmanaeser III Period. Wikipedia: Shalmaneser III (Šulmānu-ašarēdu, "the god Shulmanu is pre-eminent") was king of Assyria (859–824 BC), and son of the previous ruler, Ashurnasirpal II. The scenes are the usual: king in chariot, archers, people carrying booty and the like.
137. 2019 - Istanbul Ancient Orient Museum Neo-Assyrian plaques on Balawat gate in 2019 12 2204. Bronze plaques for door plating, Shalmanaeser III Period. Wikipedia: Shalmaneser III (Šulmānu-ašarēdu, "the god Shulmanu is pre-eminent") was king of Assyria (859–824 BC), and son of the previous ruler, Ashurnasirpal II. The scenes are the usual: king in chariot, archers, people carrying booty and the like.
138. 2019 - Courtyard beside the entrance to the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. The Iraq Museum in Baghdad. The widely reported figure of 170,000 items lost in 2003 is wrong: it came from a miscommunication by the first crews on the scene plus empty cases whose contents curators had removed before the First Gulf War. The accurate figure is around 15,000 items, of which roughly 6,000 had been recovered as of 2009.
139. 2019 - Shanidar I skull and skeleton, c. 60,000 to 45,00o BCE. Iraq Museum. The Iraq Museum in Baghdad. The widely reported figure of 170,000 items lost in 2003 is wrong: it came from a miscommunication by the first crews on the scene plus empty cases whose contents curators had removed before the First Gulf War. The accurate figure is around 15,000 items, of which roughly 6,000 had been recovered as of 2009.
140. 2019 - One of the Hatra Galleries at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Iraq. The Iraq Museum in Baghdad. The widely reported figure of 170,000 items lost in 2003 is wrong: it came from a miscommunication by the first crews on the scene plus empty cases whose contents curators had removed before the First Gulf War. The accurate figure is around 15,000 items, of which roughly 6,000 had been recovered as of 2009.
141. 2019 - Gilgamesh and Enkidu slaying Humbaba at the Cedar Forest. From Iraq; purchase. 19th-17th century BCE. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
142. 2019 - Table au Lion Bilingual Linear Elamite and Akkadian Louvre Museum. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
143. 2019-07-06 - Room 9: Assyria: Nineveh. Room 9, the Nineveh gallery. Nineveh was Sennacherib's capital and later Ashurbanipal's, and the mound of Kuyunjik yielded both the palace reliefs and the tablet library.
144. 2019-07-06 - Room 56: Mesopotamia 6000–1500 BC. Room 56, the British Museum's Mesopotamia gallery covering roughly 6000 to 1500 BC. It holds the Standard of Ur, the Ram in a Thicket and the Uruk Trough, so a single room spans the appearance of cities, writing and monumental art.
145. 2019-07-06 - Room 8: Assyria: Nimrud, Pt. 2. Room 8, the second Nimrud gallery. Nineteenth-century partage split the material between London and many other collections, a dispersal the repatriation debate criticises and which is also the reason the reliefs still exist.
146. 2019-07-06 - Room 10a: Assyria: Lion Hunts. Room 10a of the British Museum, the Assyrian lion hunt gallery. The reliefs came from Ashurbanipal's North Palace at Nineveh and were shipped to London in the nineteenth century, which is why the finest surviving Assyrian carving is in Bloomsbury.
147. 2019-07-06 - Room 10c: Assyria: Khorsabad. Room 10c, Khorsabad material in the British Museum. Khorsabad is Dur-Sharrukin, the city Sargon II built from nothing and which was largely abandoned after his death; its sculpture is now split between London, Paris and Chicago.
148. 2019-07-06 - Room 7: Assyria: Nimrud, Pt. 1. Room 7, the first of the British Museum's Nimrud galleries. Nimrud is Kalhu, Ashurnasirpal II's capital, and its Northwest Palace reliefs were dispersed to museums worldwide in the nineteenth century, which is why they survived the 2015 demolition of the site.
149. 2019-07-06 - Room 10b: Assyria: Siege of Lachish. Room 10b, the Lachish reliefs from Sennacherib's Southwest Palace at Nineveh. They show the siege of a Judaean city in 701 BC and are one of the rare cases where an Assyrian visual account and a biblical account describe the same event from opposite sides.
150. 2019-07-06 - Room 6: Assyrian Sculpture and Balawat Gates. Room 6, Assyrian sculpture and the Balawat Gates. The gates are bronze bands that sheathed the wooden doors of Shalmaneser III's gateway, embossed with campaign scenes; the wood is long gone and the bronze survives.
151. 2019-11-14 - Penn Museum's Transformation Revealed. The Penn Museum's Middle East Galleries reopening after redesign. The galleries organise the Ur, Nippur and Iraq material around the emergence of cities.
152. 2019-11-30 - Nubian Museum, Aswan, Egypt (HD). Footage from the galleries, running 20 min.
153. 2019-12-06 - Egyptian Museum In Tahrir Cairo 1 - Sarcophagi - Animal Mummies - Daily Life Tools - متحف التحرير. Filmed in the museum collections, running 40 min.
154. 2019-12-25 - Grand Egyptian Museum Joint Conservation Project (20 minutes version). Filmed in the museum collections, running 21 min.
155. 2020-01-08 - Egyptian Museum In Tahrir Cairo 2 - King Tut - Apis Bull - Gold Jewelry - الملك توت - ثور أبيس. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 37 min.
156. 2020-04-09 - Unveiling the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir. Filmed in the museum collections, running 1 min.
157. 2020-04-14 - a guided video tours for the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 1 min.
158. 2020-04-16 - Allein im Museum | Vorderasiatisches Museum mit Barbara Helwing. Barbara Helwing walks an empty Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin. The collection holds the Ishtar Gate and Processional Way material from Koldewey's Babylon excavations, and the Pergamon has been closed in phases for long-term renovation.
159. 2020-04-24 - Allein im Museum | Pergamonmuseum. Das Panorama mit Martin Maischberger. Martin Maischberger alone in the Pergamonmuseum with the panorama. Berlin's Mesopotamian holdings came out of the German Oriental Society's excavations at Babylon and Assur under Koldewey and Walter Andrae.
160. 2020-05-07 - Egyptian Museum In Tahrir: The Ultimate Strategies List | المتحف المصري بالتحرير. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 1 min.
161. 2020 - Battle of Ulai, Elam, 653 BCE, British Museum. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
162. 2020 - Mace dedicated to Gigamesh-AO 3761 with transcription of the name Gilgamesh. Mace dedicated to Gigamesh- Musée du Louvre, département des Antiquités orientales, AO 3761 with transcription of the name Gilgamesh. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
163. 2020-08-22 - Facing the Unknown in Ancient Mesopotamia | Insider Insights. Met curators on facing the unknown in ancient Mesopotamia, meaning divination and omen literature. Omen compendia such as Shumma alu and the extispicy texts are among the largest genres in the surviving cuneiform record.
164. 2020-09-09 - Michael Rakowitz: Nimrud | Exhibition Trailer. A trailer for Michael Rakowitz's Nimrud. Artists' responses to the destruction sit alongside conservation as ways of registering what happened.
165. 2020-09-15 - Au Louvre ! La cour Khorsabad. The Cour Khorsabad at the Louvre, built to display the winged bulls and reliefs from Sargon II's capital excavated by Paul-Emile Botta. The court reconstructs a palace gateway inside a museum.
166. 2020-09-30 - Michael Rakowitz: Nimrud. Michael Rakowitz's Nimrud, which reconstructs destroyed Assyrian reliefs in Middle Eastern food packaging. The work makes the absence of the originals its subject rather than pretending to replace them.
167. 2020-10-13 - Nubian Museum, Aswan, Egypt, Africa. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 6 min.
168. 2020-11-26 - BISI Webinar: The Story of a New Museum for Basra. The story of the new museum for Basra. Building a regional museum meant negotiating loans, security and a building that carried its own difficult history.
169. 2020-11-30 - A New Museum for Basra
170. 2020-12-07 - Nubian Museum Aswan. The Nubia Museum is dedicated to the history of Nubia, the area that stretches from Aswan in the north through the Sudan in the south.
171. 2021-02-08 - The Lasting Legacies of Mesopotamia: Ideas, Monuments, Images. Penn Museum on the lasting legacies of Mesopotamia in ideas, monuments and images. Cradle of civilisation is defensible narrowly, for the earliest cities and writing, and indefensible as a claim that civilisation spread outward from here.
172. 2021-04-11 - معرض اشوربانيبال ملك اشور I am Ashurbanipal king of the world, king of Assyria exhibition. The I am Ashurbanipal exhibition covered in Arabic. Coverage in the region's own languages reaches audiences the London press does not.
173. 2021-04-15 - Vom Fragment zum Monument: Das Ischtar-Tor in Berlin | Pergamonmuseum | Ausstellungstrailer. From fragment to monument: how the Ishtar Gate was assembled in Berlin from excavated glazed brick. The gate carries rows of the dragon of Marduk, the mushhushshu, alongside bulls of Adad.
174. 2021-05-07 - Monuments and Memory: Deconstructing Power in Antiquity and the Contemporary. Monuments and memory, on deconstructing power in antiquity and today. Assyrian palace art was built to project power, and museums inherit that intention along with the stone.
175. 2021 - Pergamon Museum Parts of Inanna temple facade in Uruk 8049. As explained in a notice in the museum, in a temple precinct in Uruk dedicated to a goddess Inanna a new temple was erected under king Kara-indash in the late 15th century BC. Figures of male and female divinities alternate in niches in its façade holding flasks overflowing with water.
176. 2021-06-24 - Curators' tour of Nero: the man behind the myth | #BritishMuseumTours. Filmed in the museum collections, running 27 min.
177. 2021-06-28 - Egyptian Artefacts At the British Museum Walkthrough Tour, June 2021. Footage from the galleries, running 5 min.
178. 2021-07-09 - Visit the OI Museum Today!. A short invitation to the ISAC Museum in Chicago, formerly the Oriental Institute Museum. Its Mesopotamian holdings come directly from expeditions the institute ran in Iraq under Henri Frankfort and others.
179. 2021-07-12 - The Epic Story of a New Museum for Basra: Humanity Always Wins. The epic story of a new museum for Basra. The project was driven substantially by Iraqi and British volunteers over more than a decade.
180. 2022 - Inlay frieze fragments Kish ED Ashmolean. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
181. 2022 - 253. Interior of Erbil Citadel, Hawler, Erbil Governorate, Iraq. The Kurdish Textile and Ethnographic (Cultural) Museum is in the background. The Grand Gate appears on the right. Interior of Erbil Citadel, Hawler, Erbil Governorate, Iraq. The Kurdish Textile and Ethnographic (Cultural) Museum is in the background. The Grand Gate appears on the right. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
182. 2022 - Door socket Ur Namma Ashmolean. Stone door socket, probably one of a pair, dedicated by king Ur-Namma of Ur (ca. 2112-2095 BC) to the god Enki, "deluge of heaven and earth". Ashmolean Museum. RIME 3/2.01.01.32, ex. 01 / CDLI https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P226930. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
183. 2022-10-17 - متحف النوبه1. 997 The Nubian Museum (officially the International Museum o...
184. 2022-10-26 - Cairo's Three Museums: Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), Egyptian Museum, NMEC...what's the difference?!. Cairo, Egypt has three museums: the Grand Egyptian Museum, the Egyptian Museum Cairo at Tahrir Square, and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization. The GEM has had a soft opening, with a lot currently on display (this video is outdated on the GEM).
185. 2022-11-11 - She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400–2000 B.C.. The Morgan Library exhibition She Who Wrote, on Enheduanna and women of Mesopotamia. Enheduanna was daughter of Sargon of Akkad and high priestess of the moon god at Ur, and she remains important whatever the attribution question decides.
186. 2023-02-02 - Everything you wanted to ask about ancient Egypt (provided you’re a 9-year-old) | History Hotline. Footage from the galleries, running 13 min.
187. 2023-03-15 - Egyptian Museum: downtown Cairo museum at Tahrir Square with thousands of ancient Egyptian artifacts. Footage from the galleries, running 4 min.
188. 2023-04-19 - Fundamentals in Heritage Conservation, Care of Museum Collections, English. Fundamentals in heritage conservation and the care of museum collections, taught at the Iraqi Institute. Collections care is the unglamorous work that decides whether objects survive.
189. 2023-04-19 - Fundamentals in Heritage Conservation, Introduction to Care of Museum Collections, English subtitles. An introduction to the care of museum collections from the Iraqi Institute in Erbil. Iraqi museum staff now train inside Iraq rather than only abroad.
190. 2023-05-08 - “Reframing The Met’s Assyrian Sculpture Court”
191. 2023 - 3 British Museum objects. 1. A Saite Official: Carved from dark granite, this statue depicts a high-ranking official from the Saite Period (26th Dynasty, 664-525 BC) of ancient Egypt. With a stern expression and hands resting on his knees, he embodies power and authority. Hieroglyphs inscribed on his kilt reveal his titles, possibly a priest or.
192. 2023-07-05 - Safeguarding the diversity of cultural heritage in Basrah. 's heritage includes marsh, port and Ottoman layers alongside the ancient south.
193. 2023-08-09 - Nubian Museum Aswan Egypt. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 15 min.
194. 2023-08-11 - Mesopotamian Ruins and Contemporary Art in Post-Conflict Iraq | Hanaa Malallah and Kiersten Neumann. Mesopotamian ruins and contemporary art in post-conflict Iraq, with the artist Hanaa Malallah. Iraqi artists have engaged directly with the destruction of their own heritage.
195. 2023-09-20 - Nimrud in the British Museum. Nimrud material in the British Museum, examined panel by panel. Layard excavated here from 1845 and shipped reliefs to London, believing at first that he was digging Nineveh.
196. 2023-09-23 - Nubian adventures in Aswan 🇪🇬. Aswan, home of the Nubians. And Egyptians. Or are Nubians Egyptians? I don't know, but I know this: In Aswan (which is beautiful by the way) we learned a lot about Nubian culture and history.
197. 2024-06-13 - We found a lost temple using maths sent by an ancient Sumerian god | Curator's Corner S9 Ep3. British Museum curators on a temple located through the mathematics of an ancient text. The Mesopotamian scribal tradition included substantial mathematical and astronomical work in base sixty, the ancestor of our sixty-minute hour and 360-degree circle.
198. 2024 - المتحف المصري الكبير ليلا محمد شكري الجرنوسي 9. An Egyptian object in a museum collection. Commons dates the file to 2024.
199. 2024 - المتحف الكبير بالجيزه من الداخل. A record from an Egyptian object in a museum collection. Commons dates the file to 2024.
200. 2024 - 2المتحف المصري الكبير. Held on Wikimedia Commons, it documents an Egyptian object in a museum collection. Commons dates the file to 2024.
201. 2024 - Amulettes (Égypte antique). An Egyptian object in a museum collection, museums record 3.
202. 2024 - Mesopotamia, rilievo da palazzo di assurbanipal II a nimrud, in alabastro, 875-860 ac ca. 02 testa di mostro ad aquila. Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, capital under Ashurnasirpal II and the site of the Northwest Palace, the Nimrud ivories and the queens' tombs found by the Iraqi archaeologist Muzahim Mahmud Hussein between 1988 and 1990, a discovery usually left out of Western tellings. It was bulldozed in 2015, and it was the real catastrophe of that year, more than the Mosul Museum video.
203. 2024 - Dedication of a gift-offering to the Ekur temple of Enlil in Nippur, from Hasmar-galsu, c. 15th century BC, black diorite - Otago Museum - D. 04835. Exhibit in Otago Museum - Dunedin, New Zealand. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
204. 2024-08-01 - The Babylonian Map of the World with Irving Finkel | Curator’s Corner S9 Ep5. Irving Finkel handles the Babylonian Map of the World, BM 92687, a clay tablet carrying a schematic diagram of the earth ringed by a bitter river with regions radiating beyond it. It is the oldest surviving world map of its kind and the caption text names places the diagram does not label.
205. 2024-08-25 - Nubia Museum: Egypt Archaeological Jewel in Aswan. Filmed in the museum collections, running 11 min.
206. 2024-08-29 - Archaeologists keep re-excavating this 4000-year-old brick | Curator's Corner S9 Ep6. A British Museum curator on an inscribed brick that archaeologists keep re-excavating. Stamped bricks carrying a king's name are among the most common finds on Mesopotamian sites and are how many buildings are attributed at all.
207. 2024-11-02 - Exploring the Grand Egyptian Museum. Footage from the galleries, running 3 min.
208. 2024-11-04 - Inside Egypt's $1 Billion Grand Egyptian Museum. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 9 min.
209. 2024-11-23 - Grand Egyptian Museum [GEM] Opening Week Tour, Trevor Grassi. Footage from the galleries, running 49 min.
210. 2024-11-25 - Unveiling the Masterpieces of the Grand Egyptian Museum. Filmed in the museum collections, running 4 min.
211. 2024-12-01 - Nubia Museum Aswan Egypt. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 35 min.
212. 2024-12-23 - Welcome to the Nubian Museum in Aswan - Egypt Nov 2024 Roots & Culture Journey of a Lifetime. Footage from the galleries, running 7 min.
213. 2025-01-04 - The After Life at Nubian Museum in Aswan - Egypt Nov 2024 Roots & Culture Journey of a Lifetime. Filmed in the museum collections, running 3 min.
214. 2025-02-09 - A Met Museum guard becomes a star. Filmed in the museum collections, running 2 min.
215. 2025-03-10 - The Met: A History of the Museum and Its People. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 1h 26m.
216. 2025-03-14 - The Egyptian Museum in Cairo downtown near Tahrir Square.. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 46 min.
217. 2025 - Grand Egyptian Museum - EGWUG Trip (139). An Egyptian object in a museum collection.
218. 2025 - Grand Egyptian Museum - EGWUG Trip (24). A record from an Egyptian object in a museum collection. It carries a date of 2025, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
219. 2025 - Grand Egyptian Museum 2025 (78997). This work was uploaded within an activity of Egypt Wikimedians User Group. Feel free to drop your question on the workshop discussion page. The record is dated 2025, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
220. 2025 - Grand Egyptian Museum 2025 (27565). This work was uploaded within an activity of Egypt Wikimedians User Group. Feel free to drop your question on the workshop discussion page.
221. 2025 - Grand Egyptian Museum - EGWUG Trip (110). An Egyptian object in a museum collection. Commons dates the file to 2025.
222. 2025 - GEM, December 22nd, 2025, by Dyolf77, ZVE07627. Held on Wikimedia Commons, it documents an Egyptian object in a museum collection.
223. 2025 - GEM, December 22nd, 2025, by Dyolf77, ZVE07686. A record from an Egyptian object in a museum collection.
224. 2025 - Grand Egyptian Museum - EGWUG Trip (52). Held on Wikimedia Commons, it documents an Egyptian object in a museum collection. Commons dates the file to 2025, filed under museums in the Egypt archive.
225. 2025 - 50 000 ca. Objekte zeigt das Große Ägyptische Museum.. An Egyptian object in a museum collection, museums record 2.
226. 2025 - Visiting The MET MUSEUM (52). Visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York City during the Wikiconference North America 2025 Cultural Crawl. Commons dates the file to 2025.
227. 2025 - Grand Egyptian Museum - EGWUG Trip (80). A record from an Egyptian object in a museum collection. It carries a date of 2025, filed under museums in the Egypt archive. The Commons file is 1080 pixels wide.
228. 2025-06-25 - Inside Grand Egyptian Museum OPENING- Must Watch Before Visiting. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 16 min.
229. 2025-07-10 - Egypt’s $1 Billion Marvel: Arts24's exclusive look inside the Grand Egyptian Museum • FRANCE 24. Filmed in the museum collections, running 12 min.
230. 2025-07-31 - The revealing details of the Assyrian Lion Hunt Reliefs | Curator’s Corner S10 Ep5. A British Museum curator walks through the Lion Hunt reliefs from Ashurbanipal's North Palace at Nineveh, panel by panel. The palace carvings are Assyria's own account of itself, made to be seen; the reputation for unique brutality rests largely on the fact that the Assyrians documented their conquests in stone while their neighbours did not.
231. 2025-08-20 - Egyptian Museum, Coptic Cairo, and Khan El Khalili. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 13 min.
232. 2025-09-02 - What Makes the Grand Egyptian Museum Worth the 20-Year Wait?. Filmed in the museum collections, running 12 min.
233. 2025-09-16 - ancient Egypt unlocks its mysteries inside the Grand Egyptian Museum. Every treasure has a story. Every artefact is steeped in secrets. ancient Egypt unlocks its mysteries inside the Grand Egyptian Museum Official Grand Opening on November 1 Opening to the public on November 4 #GrandEgyptianMuseum #GEM.
234. 2025-10-08 - The Grand Egyptian Museum | A Journey Through Ancient Egypt. Discover the Grand Egyptian Museum the world’s largest archaeological museum dedicated to a single civilisation. Overlooking the Great Pyramids of Giza, the GEM is a masterpiece of design and heritage that bridges Egypt’s past and future.
235. 2025-10-29 - “The Grand Egyptian Museum — Egypt's Fourth Pyramid”. Filmed in the museum collections, running 5 min.
236. 2025-10-30 - Get a First Look Inside the New $1B Grand Egyptian Museum. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 5 min.
237. 2025-11-01 - Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) | Full 4K Tour with Captions. Footage from the galleries, running 3h 56m.
238. 2025-11-01 - Grand Egyptian Museum opening ceremony music show • FRANCE 24 English. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 18 min.
239. 2025-11-01 - Replay: The Grand Egyptian Museum's opening ceremony • FRANCE 24 English. Footage from the galleries, running 1h 1m.
240. 2025-11-01 - Inside The Grand Egyptian Museum (Full Documentary) Explore The Entire Ancient Egyptian Collection. Footage from the galleries, running 52 min.
241. 2025-11-02 - Egypt unveils Grand Egyptian Museum dedicated to its ancient civilisation. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 2 min.
242. 2025-11-02 - GEM is global hub for artifact restoration, egyptology: Conservation chair. Filmed in the museum collections, running 8 min.
243. 2025-11-04 - Historic Opening: Golden Treasures of King Tutankhamun Unveiled at Egypt’s Grand Museum | AC1N. Filmed in the museum collections, running 5 min.
244. 2025-11-06 - IT'S HERE! King Tut's Treasures & Solar Boat Finally OPEN!! | أخيرا افتتاح المتحف المصري الكبير. Footage from the galleries, running 45 min.
245. 2025-11-07 - Watch the OFFICIAL Video of the Grand Egyptian Museum Opening – Full Length (Exclusive). A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 1h 13m.
246. 2025-11-07 - لحظة فخر وإبداع افتتاح استثنائي تم تنفيذه بشغف ودقة وإحساس عالي. Footage from the galleries, running 1h 13m.
247. 2025-11-09 - Inside the Grand Egyptian Museum — First Official Opening Day Tour. Filmed in the museum collections, running 10 min.
248. 2025-11-10 - The Grand Opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum | A Journey Through Egypt’s Eternal Legacy. Filmed in the museum collections, running 1h 13m.
249. 2025-11-29 - Grand Egyptian Museum - Promotional movie 2025 - Part 1. The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), inaugurated on 1 November 2025, is the largest archaeological museum in the world and Egypt’s most ambitious cultural project. Located near the Pyramids of Giza, the museum spans 500,000 square meters, making it 33 times larger than the historic Tahrir Museum.
250. 2025-12-05 - Egyptians artefacts you'd never seen before I Egyptian Museum Complete Walkthrough. Footage from the galleries, running 31 min.
251. 2026-02-06 - Grand Egyptian Museum - Egypt's New $1 Billion Museum | GEM Tour & Review 4K. Filmed in the museum collections, running 1h 2m.
252. 2026-02-06 - From the Egyptian Museum to Tahrir Square: Cairo by Night. Footage from the galleries, running 7 min.
253. 2026-02-10 - Egyptian Museum Cairo Tour - 4K with Captions. Footage from the galleries, running 24 min.
254. 2026-03-22 - What You SHOULD See The Grand Egyptian Museum | Egyptologist(s) recommend these sights. A record of objects as they are displayed now, running 18 min.
255. 2026 - Museum of Us - Coffin lid. Coffin lid, Ancient Egypt. In the permanent collection of the Museum of Us (formerly Museum of Man), San Diego, California.
256. 2026 - Lion de Mari - Musée du Louvre Antiquités orientales AO 19520 ; AO 19824. Provenance is about where things are. Objects that stayed in Iraq are the hardest for an archive like this to show, and objects that left are the easiest, because the institutions holding them abroad publish open-licensed images and the Iraqi institutions largely do not.
257. 2026-06-19 - "L'Eau primordiale", une exposition sur l'eau dans les antiquités orientales du Louvre.. A Louvre exhibition on water in the ancient Near Eastern collections. Irrigation is why cities appeared in southern Mesopotamia at all: the rivers made intensive agriculture possible and the management of water made large institutions necessary.