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Video Series: Neues Museum

The Berlin Gold Hat is decorated with various types of circular ornamentation, which can be explained as a lunisolar calendar, i.e., a calendar based on both the sun and the moon. It represents the connection between cult, knowledge and material wealth. — The Berlin Gold Hat is decorated with various types of circular ornamentation, which can be explained as a lunisolar calendar, i.e., a calendar based on both the sun and the moon. It represents the connection between cult, knowledge and material wealth. © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Claudia Plamp

Video Series: Restless Times. Archaeology in Germany

China and Egypt. Cradles of the World, exhibition graphic, composed of: You wine vessel shaped as an owl/Standing figure of the jackal-headed god Anubis/Dui food vessel/Statuette of a servant/Heart scarab. — China and Egypt. Cradles of the World, exhibition graphic, composed of: You wine vessel shaped as an owl/Standing figure of the jackal-headed god Anubis/Dui food vessel/Statuette of a servant/Heart scarab. © Shanghai Museum, China / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Sandra Steiß

Video Series: China and Egypt. Cradles of the World

Nefertiti Bust, Egypt, Tell el-Amarna, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1351–1334 BC, donated by James Simon — Nefertiti Bust, Egypt, Tell el-Amarna, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1351–1334 BC, donated by James Simon © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Sandra Steiß

Video Series: In the Light of Amarna. 100 Years of the Nefertiti Discovery

Basin from Sant'Anastasia, Sardara, bronze, Iron Age — Basin from Sant'Anastasia, Sardara, bronze, Iron Age © Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari

Video Series: Sardinia – Island of Megaliths

Video Series and Films from the Neues Museum

Exhibition Trailers from the Neues Museum

Aramaic papyrus with the story of the sage and chancellor Achiker, detail, papyrus with black ink, 5th century BC, Elephantine, Egypt — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung

Elephantine. Island of the Millennia

“Archaeological Treasures of Uzbekistan. From Alexander the Great to the Kushan Empire”, exhibition view James-Simon-Galerie + Neues Museum, 2023 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Archaeological Treasures of Uzbekistan

Plinth of the barque of King Natakamani and the Kandake Amanitore — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Sandra Steiß

Adventures on the Nile. Prussia and Egyptology 1842–45

Films about the Collections at the Neues Museum

House altar featuring Akhenaten, Nefertiti and three of their daughters under the solar Aten, Egypt, Tell el-Amarna, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1351–1334 BC, ref. no. ÄM 14145, donated by James Simon — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Sandra Steiß

Looked At! House altar featuring Akhenaten, Nefertiti and three of their daughters under the solar Aten

The fish from Vettersfelde, shield decoration, Scythian, Vettersfelde, today Witaszkowo, Poland, ca. 500 BC — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Johannes Laurentius; CC NC-BY-SA

Looked At! Fish from Vettersfelde

Upper part of a colossal statue of Tutankhamun or Ay, detail — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Sandra Steiß

A Little Cultural History of Ancient Egypt: Disposable Goods

Research at the Neues Museum

Papyrus fragment originating from the Nile island of Elephantine, held between sheets of glass in the storerooms of the Archäologisches Zentrum © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Juliane Eirich — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Juliane Eirich

ERC Project Elephantine: Localizing 4000 Years of Cultural History

Sardinia – Island of Megaliths | The Nuraghic Heritage of Sardinia — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor und Frühgeschichte

Sardinia – Island of Megaliths | The Nuraghic Heritage of Sardinia

Sardinia – Island of Megaliths | The Iron Age giant statues from Mont'e Prama — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor und Frühgeschichte

Sardinia – Island of Megaliths | The Iron Age giant statues from Mont'e Prama