A small, wooden diorama found in an ancient Egyptian tomb reflects the importance of grain in an agricultural society.

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival ... in the State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich, and the Egyptian ...

The collection is named the “Art of Ancient Egypt, Nubia, and the Near East” and one famous ... The domestic altar featuring the royal couple Akhenaten and Nefertiti from the New Kingdom is another ...

The model represents a miniature granary, which suggests the importance of wheat and barley in ancient Egyptian society. The model, which is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ...