Antiquities
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New Handbook Provides Guidelines to Research the Provenance of Mediterranean Antiquities
This essential Getty volume outlines effective strategies to aid research endeavors
What Scholars of Antiquity and Ancient Myth Really Thought of The Odyssey
Did Christopher Nolan’s adaptation do the ancient tale justice?
Getty Casting Call for The Odyssey
Meet characters from The Odyssey in the Getty collection
How to Merge with the Gods
Getty’s ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead” manuscripts go on view
The Secrets to Displaying a 3,600-Year-Old Crown
How mountmakers prepared this delicate headpiece for its Getty Villa debut
Making the Buddha Head from Merv Whole Again
A collaboration between the Getty Museum and the State Museum of Turkmenistan
Meet an Ushabti, an Ancient Egyptian Statuette Made for the Afterlife
What we know about this figure discovered in Neferibresaneith’s tomb
The Ancient Women Who Ruled Their Kingdoms
Long before modern conversations about gender and power, Nubia offered a unique model
What Is the Egyptian Book of the Dead?
Taking a deeper look at a little-known part of Getty's collections
Getty's Egyptian Book of the Dead Lives Again
The exhibition, previously shown in 2023, features Getty's Book of the Dead manuscripts