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

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

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

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).

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

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 has launched a short-session Web3 game, Art Links, that invites players to identify common threads among works of art. This is the first Web3-based experience at The Met ...

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 ...