Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/
Select from "Curatorial Departments" either Egyptian Art or Greek & Roman
Art.
Choose the "Introduction" link for a good overview, and then choose
"Highlights" for further study of many objects. The new installation of the Greek & Roman
galleries just opened last year and is well worth a visit.
Brooklyn Museum
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/
Choose "Egypt Reborn" for the Egyptian collection.
The huge permanent collection at the
Brooklyn Museum is one of the best in
the world, and it has recently been reinstalled.
Click on the link to the
mother and child image of Ankhnes-meryre II and Pepy II for more
information.
There are good tours of the collection as well.
British Museum
http://www.britishmuseum.org/
Ancient Egypt
. This website includes a wide range of topics at a very simple level:
daily
life, geography, gods and goddesses, pharaohs, mummification, pyramids,
temples, etc.
Or choose "Galleries" for a range of topics on Ancient Greece and Rome.
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