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UNITED STATES / Boston: "Gold and the Gods-Jewels of Ancient Nubia"
by Modem
© Modem

until Sunday May 14 2017

MFA - Museum of Fine Arts Boston
T : +1 (617) 267 9300
465 Huntington Avenue
MA 02115 Boston
United States



This dazzling exhibition focuses on the Museum’s world-class collection of jewelry from Ancient Nubia (located in what is now Sudan).

Gold and the Gods” focuses on excavated ornaments from an early 20th-century expedition by the Museum with Harvard University, dating from 1700 BC to 300 AD, including both uniquely Nubian and foreign imports, prized for their materials, craftsmanship, symbolism, and rarity. “Gold and the Gods” includes more than one hundred treasures, including a gilt-silver mummy mask of Queen Malakaye and the famous Hathor-headed crystal pendant. The MFA is the only US museum able to mount an exhibition devoted solely to Nubian adornment drawing exclusively on its own collection.

© Modem