Mallet

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Most of the stone and wood objects displayed in this exhibition were created with simple tools such as this mallet and chisel. Middle Kingdom artists relied on copper or bronze, as they did not possess the technology to manufacture harder metals. Other tools used by ancient Egyptian stoneworkers included metal saws, stone drills, and hard-stone pounders.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.

Metropolitan Museum of Art