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

Patrick Bringley takes us on a journey through his life, and through the art that he spent hours looking at during his shifts as a guard at the Met.

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

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 ...

(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 ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Come for the art, stay for the rooftop cocktails. A seasonal rooftop garden bar offers views over Central Park, which is especially coveted at sunset. The roof garden stays ...

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

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in late February, an increasingly familiar scene played out: A museum was restituting a work of art, giving back something from its collection to the place where ...

The images had suffered "almost every conceivable indignity," wrote Egyptologist Herbert Winlock (above c. 1925 at Thebes) of statues he unearthed of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut. Metropolitan ...

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