Ancient Egyptian Boat Editorial Photo

Picture of an ancient Egyptian boat with big rudder showing rowers and leaders taken in the Metropolitan Museum of Art NY. “The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 26,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from the Paleolithic to the Roman period ca. 300,000 B.C.–A.D. 4th century. More than half of the collection is derived from the Museum`s thirty-five years of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing Western interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.” according to The Met.