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Galleries for the Arts of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Share After a comprehensive eight-year construction project, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will open its Galleries for the Arts of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia in fall 2011, in a newly renovated space of nearly 19,000 square feet (1,800 square meters). Fifteen galleries are grouped by geographical region around... »
Istanbul-Based Vehbi Koç Foundation Funds New Galleries for Ottoman Art at Metropolitan Museum
Share In recognition of a generous gift of $10 million from the Istanbul-based Vehbi Koç Foundation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the designation of two new galleries for Ottoman Art as the Koç Family Galleries. To be part of the Museum’s galleries for the art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia,... »
Thought Shari May Like This – Evidence of earliest known domestic horses found in Kazakhstan
Researchers from Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pa., and the universities of Exeter and Bristol in the U.K., uncovered the evidence in Kazakhstan, the world's largest landlocked country situated in Central Asia. Data gathered by archaeologists supports the hypothesis that the horse-rich area in the vast, semi-arid, grassy plains, or steppe zones, east... »





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