This exhibition assesses modern and contemporary art and its connection to culture in Morocco’s major urban centers of Tangier, Tetouan and Casablanca from the 1950s to the prerevolutionary...

From its excavations in Babylon (Iraq) to its partial reconstruction in Berlin, the Ishtar Gate has fascinated visitors to Berlin’s Pergamonmuseum for nearly 90 years. Built by King...

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, cattle-herding nomadic tribes from geographically and culturally diverse Afghanistan, Pakistan and India moved seasonally across Central and South Asia in...

This exhibition explores how ancient Egyptians used items of jewelry now in the museum’s collection to adorn, protect and express devotion to the divine. By examining the materials and...

Bowdoin College holds six reliefs from the Neo-Assyrian period (911-609 BCE) of the Mesopotamian city of Nimrud. This exhibition examines both the ancient and the modern histories of the reliefs...

This exhibit brings together for the first time a comprehensive selection of artworks that capture rich and shifting expressions of the lives of women in Mesopotamia during the third millennium BCE...

Assyrian kings in the ninth to seventh centuries BCE decorated their palaces with masterful relief sculptures that represent a high point of Mesopotamian art, both for their artistic quality and...

From the 1950s through the 1980s, painters and sculptors throughout the Arab world explored challenges and possibilities of abstraction in art. The exhibition explores intricate geometries of color...

This exhibit presents finds from archeological excavations carried out in the Sultanate of Oman over the past 50 years, with treasures dating from the third to first millennium BCE. The...