The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition "Africa & Byzantium", on show until 3 March, features more than two hundred antique and medieval objects that bear witness to a thousand years of influence by the Byzantine Empire on the Christian communities of Egypt, Tunisia and Ethiopia. Painted manuscripts, textiles, marble mosaics, carved ivories from Nubia, gold jewellery from Egypt, wall paintings: most of these items are being shown for the first time in the United States.
"Africa & Byzantium" at the Met in New York
