Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful successor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be ...

Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...

For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor ...

For a long time, the image of Pharaoh Hatshepsut has been linked to the idea of a damnatio memoriae, a deliberate attempt to ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art is ranked #4 out of 38 things to do in New York City. ... Roman and Egyptian art, and the second floor's Islamic art exhibits are especially popular).

One of the multiple Neith statues at the Met, 664–525 B.C. Egyptian, Late Period Cupreous alloy; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1908, Image via Public Domain ...

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 ...

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a shattered female portrait from Egyptian antiquity is a moving testament to our collective mortality.

This fall, explore the Italian Renaissance, ancient Egypt, and 1700s Paris without ever leaving the Upper East Side. The Metropolitan Museum of Art will dig into these topics and many more in a ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be returning 16 ancient sculptures to Cambodia and Thailand that are tied to looting. Fourteen Khmer sculptures are being returned to Cambodia while two will go ...