Aliza Sena, associate coordinator for Digital Learning, asks Associate Curator Isabel Stünkel and Conservator Ann Heywood to answer a letter addressed to William the Hippo.

Curator Diana Craig Patch and Research Associate Kei Yamamoto highlight jewelry from the famed Haraga Treasure now on view in the Met's permanent galleries and in the exhibition Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom.

Did you know there are tons of very small ancient Egyptian hippos at The Met? Use the clues in this post and meet four tiny hippos today!

Assistant Horticulturist Carly Still discusses the importance of bees both in the Middle Ages and today in the gardens of The Cloisters.

Curatorial Fellow James Green explores the ways in which beads and beadwork have been incorporated into many artistic traditions across the globe.

Danielle Zwang, MuSe Intern in the Department of Egyptian Art, shares the rules of the game of Hounds and Jackals.

When we consider that she lived in the middle of the second millennium B.C., Hatnefer was fortunate to have been born into a culture that recognized a woman as an individual, not merely as the possession of her male relatives.

Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow Natalia Di Pietrantonio examines the role of landscape and perspective in two miniature paintings from the Met's collection.

This plain white coffin, excavated by The Met’s Egyptian Expedition in the 1920s, was full of material from the mummification of a man named Khaemhor, made sacred by contact with his body. Learn more here about the excavation, construction, and meaning of this fascinating object.

By 1905, approximately 4,400 objects formed the nucleus of a collection of ancient Egyptian art at The Met.