which began in 2014 and reimagines 75% of the museum’s footprint. These galleries span two floors of the Coxe Egyptian Wing, which houses 50,000 Egyptian and Nubian objects dating from 4,000 B.C.E. to ...

Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own, creating a distinctive, visual style. Truncated and with steep sides, the pyramids left by the long line of Nubian kings populate the desert ...