Dr. Sara E. Cole

About Dr. Sara E. Cole

Sara E. Cole is assistant curator in the Antiquities Department at the J. Paul Getty Museum. She received her Ph.D. in Ancient History from Yale University. Her research focuses on the visual culture of Graeco-Roman Egypt and cross-cultural exchange in antiquity.

During ancient Egypt’s last dynasty, a massive cultural exchange occurred between Greeks and Egyptians.

Mummy of Herakleides
Getty conversations

by Dr. Sara E. Cole and Dr. Steven Zucker

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the Silk Roads

a network of trade routes across Asia