The popularity and fascination of Egyptian art comes from the pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphics. The theme of the exhibition concerns racial types in ancient Egyptian art and will examine the various naturalistic facial features found in non-real sculptures. In contrast, royal portraits are extremely symbolic in depicting human figures with the combination of human deities and animal forms tending to portray idealized and conventional faces of Egypt. Using objects from the Brooklyn Museum of Art's permanent collection, this exhibition will showcase 25 portraits of local nobles, officials, and individuals to suggest a variety of racial subdivisions such as Hykos, Nubian, Persian, and Roman influence in artistic depictions of Ancient Egyptian portraits . Politically and geographically, Ancient Egypt was divided into two areas, the Nile Delta and the Nile Valley, also known as Upper and Lower Egypt. The country's name may derive from the ancient Greek word for the Nile Valley in Arabic which is called al-Misr, meaning "two regions". The title of my exhibition is Al-Misr: The Identity Within. This exhibition is a play on the dual meaning of the country's name and the exotic language that exposes the nature of civilization over time. The opening night of the exhibition will be at the beginning of the year/month, in consideration of the period of holidays and celebrations for the ancient Egyptians (1 January - 20 May 2012). The special gallery on the third floor (Morris and Mayer Schapiro wing) will showcase a diversity of ethnicities that have shaped civilization over thousands of years and aims to shatter conventional belief about commonly recognized characteristics of.... .. middle of the sheet ......ter a conventional belief of the contemporary interpretation of the Egyptian facial representation. The goal is to incorporate realistic portraits of non-royal members of Ancient Egypt, in hopes of stimulating a dialogue among both scholarly and non-scholarly audiences. The main problem with this exhibition was that some pieces were spread out, which didn't allow for comparative advantages, however I would say that from a distance you can pick up a stark difference out of the corner of your eye more easily than if you were to blatantly examine two very similar pieces. The interpretation of Ancient Egyptian facial features has been stimulated and transformed by Hollywood for too many years, and it is time to explore the origins of such depictions. This exhibition clearly challenges our interpretations of a people we did not know and may in time prove contradictory to us as students of history.