A valuable corpus of Middle Eastern seals and artifacts

More than 40,000 ancient coins

7,400 albumen prints and 25,000 archival photos

Impressive examples of Egyptian mummy masks

A wealth of desiccated and charred plant materials from Karanis

A large collection of Latin inscriptions (ca. 375 items)

An important collection of provenanced glass fragments and vessels (ca. 1,300 items)

The largest corpus of daily life objects from a Graeco-Roman Egyptian town outside of Cairo (ca. 45,000 items)

A distinguished assemblage of early Byzantine and Islamic textiles (ca. 5,900 items)

A nearly complete edition of the Description de I’Egypte produced during Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt in 1798

One of the largest collections of Parthian pottery outside Iraq (ca. 8,500 items)

A well-known collection of Roman brick stamps