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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Lapita Community Feast in the Bismarck ArchipelagoLiangzhu Elite Ritual FeastLouis XIV’s Grand Royal Entertainment of 1668Louis XIV’s Pleasures of the Enchanted IslandLouis XV’s Versailles Ambassadors’ BanquetMacartney Embassy Banquet at ChengdeMakriyalos Neolithic Communal FeastMandela’s Presidential Inauguration BanquetMapuche Nguillatun Renewal Feast, ChileMari Royal Palace BanquetMarquis Yi of Zeng’s Ritual BanquetMaya Royal Feast at TikalMesa Verde Pueblo Ceremonial FeastMing Wanli Imperial Birthday BanquetMoche Sacrificial Feast at Huaca de la LunaMoctezuma II Hosts CortésMoctezuma II’s Court BanquetMöngke Khan’s Karakorum Court FeastMuisca El Dorado Ceremony at Lake GuatavitaMurad III’s 1582 Circumcision FestivalMurnong Management in Southeastern AustraliaMycenae Palace Festival FeastNabta Playa Seasonal Cattle GatheringNapoleon III Hosts Queen Victoria at VersaillesNapoleon’s Coronation BanquetNero’s Golden House BanquetNess of Brodgar Monumental FeastNewgrange Solstice Gathering FeastNixon’s Beijing State BanquetNixon’s Shanghai BanquetNobel Banquet Returns After the PandemicObama’s State Dinner for Hu JintaoObama’s State Dinner for Manmohan SinghObama’s State Dinner for Xi JinpingOda Nobunaga’s Banquet for Tokugawa IeyasuOlmec San Lorenzo Elite FeastOlympia’s Hecatomb FeastOttoman Banquet for a European EmbassyParis Peace Conference State DinnerPhaistos Court FeastPortuguese Estado da Índia Viceroy’s Feast at GoaPrince Vladimir's Baptismal Feast at KievPtolemy II’s Grand Procession BanquetPylos Palace State FeastQianlong’s Thousand-Elders BanquetQin Court Sacrificial BanquetQin Imperial Sacrificial Feast at XianyangQueen Elizabeth II’s State Banquet for Donald TrumpQueen Victoria Hosts Napoleon IIIQullqas: The Inca State Storehouse SystemRamesses II’s Opet Festival FeastRanjit Singh’s Lahore Court FeastRapa Nui Ahu Construction Feast, Easter IslandReagan Hosts Mikhail GorbachevReagan Hosts Queen Elizabeth IIRoosevelt’s Dinner for Prince Henry of PrussiaSafavid Nowruz at IsfahanSan Agustín Culture Funerary Feast, ColombiaSannai Maruyama Jōmon Community FeastSanxingdui Sacrificial Gathering