The film *Digging Into the Past: Egyptian Excavations of the Metropolitan Museum of Art* showcases fascinating footage of archaeological work in Egypt during the 1920s. Egyptian workers are seen ...

Serop Simonian was allowed to leave Paris and return to his hometown of Hamburg following a French magistrate’s decision that ...

(JTA) — The first time an account sharing items held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art tweeted a picture that appeared unmistakably to Jewish followers to be a ritual object used in Jewish ...

The breed of this sculpted dog is also unclear. Ancient Egyptians tended to prefer energetic dog breeds, and the ones often ...

After surrendering scores of art works thought looted, the museum is looking to its new head of provenance research to police its acquisitions and review its collection.

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) is home to one of the world’s most spectacular collections of art, sculpture, ...

Jessica Colley Clarke No museum in the United States is as celebrated as the Metropolitan Museum of ... (the first floor's Greek and Roman art and Egyptian art, and the second floor's Islamic ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund The arts flourished under Hatshepsut's reign, sparking a renaissance that influenced Egyptian art for more than a millennium. Four seal amulets inscribed ...

Ziv Nitzan, a 3½-year-old girl, found a 3,800-year-old scarab amulet during a trip to Tel Azeka, near Beit Shemesh, in Israel ...

A new study underscores the ubiquity of pleasant smells attached to commonly displayed objects, like sarcophagi and wrappings used in mummified remains.

Since its inception in 1870 as a humble nook of art publications and print reproductions, The Metropolitan ... Egyptian bangle are all historically-accurate designs based on objects in the Museum ...