Feasts

Feasts are among the few meals history bothered to record — a coronation, a temple offering, a royal wedding earned a scribe’s attention in a way an ordinary supper never did. Those accounts are where each scene here begins: the dress, the pottery, the vessels and the room are reconstructed from archaeology and the written record, so what you see is as close to the evening as the evidence can carry us.

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Abd al-Rahman III's Medina Azahara Court FeastAboriginal Bunya Nut Gathering Feast, QueenslandAboriginal Grain Harvesting and Seed CakesAbydos First-Dynasty Funerary FeastAchaemenid Royal New-Year Banquet at PersepolisAkbar’s Nauroz Court FeastAkhenaten’s Great Aten Offering FeastAlexander’s Susa Wedding FeastAmazonian Marajó Elite Feast, Marajó IslandAmenhotep III’s Sed-Festival BanquetAndrew Jackson’s Giant Cheese ReceptionAngkor Royal Festival FeastAnne Boleyn’s Coronation FeastAshurbanipal’s Garden Victory BanquetAshurnasirpal II’s Kalhu Inauguration BanquetAşıklı Höyük Communal Meat FeastAthenian Panathenaic Sacrificial FeastAugustus’ Secular Games Sacrificial FeastsAztec Panquetzaliztli Festival FeastBabylon’s Akitu New Year FeastBay of Islands Hākari of 1849Beijing Olympic Opening State BanquetBelisarius's Triumph Feast after the Vandal WarBelshazzar's Feast and the Writing on the WallBiden’s State Dinner for Fumio KishidaBiden’s State Dinner for Narendra ModiBiden’s State Dinner for William RutoBorobudur Pilgrimage FeastCahokia’s Grand Plaza FeastCahuachi Nazca Pilgrimage FeastCaral Monument-Plaza FeastCarter Hosts Deng XiaopingÇatalhöyük Cattle-Horn FeastCatherine II’s Tauride Palace FeastÇayönü Communal Building FeastChaco Canyon Great-House FeastCharles II’s Restoration Coronation FeastCharles III’s Versailles State DinnerChavín Pilgrimage FeastChicha Brewing for Inca Labor and State FeastsChimú Chan Chan Royal Audience Feast, PeruChu Court Feast at BaoshanChuño: The Inca Freeze-Dried Potato NetworkCleopatra and Antony’s Alexandrian BanquetCommodore Perry's Black Ships and Japan's First Western MealCook at Tonga’s ʻInasi FestivalCook’s Arrival During the Hawaiian MakahikiDahomey Annual Customs Feast at AbomeyDara Shikoh and Nadira Banu’s Wedding FeastDomuztepe Death-Pit FeastDurrington Walls Midwinter FeastEbla Palace Offering BanquetEdward VII’s Coronation State BanquetElizabeth I at TheobaldsElizabeth I’s Kenilworth FeastElizabeth II’s Coronation LuncheonEmperor Naruhito’s Enthronement Court BanquetEmperor Shōwa’s Enthronement BanquetEmperor Taishō’s Enthronement BanquetEmperor Wu’s Court Banquet