As it turned out, the visitor was not really a visitor at all. He was a Met curator, planning a big new exhibit with ancient ...

(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 ...

This marble statuette is emblematic of Ptolemaic-era art: a mishmash of styles with a decidedly Egyptian twist.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a reach that expands across the globe and back in time. Its collections cover everything ...

US authorities have returned a stolen coffin to Egypt, two years after it was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ... Reuters Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Hassan Shoukry ...

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 ...

It may just be the dream of practically every artist on Earth. That dream is to have his or her work exhibited at one of the ...

A humble security guard and sculptor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art got a fairytale ending as ... especially the Egyptian Wing. 'I still have the ticket,' he recalled to The New York Times.

A looted ancient Egyptian sarcophagus that was on display ... and five pieces seized from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art last year. The US is not the only country to have returned ...

Located opposite Central Park on Fifth Avenue, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in New York is the ... countless varied treasures such as Egyptian sarcophagi, Impressionist masterpieces ...

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 ...