Sculpted Goddess Diana soars across NY's Met Museum

The sculpted goddess Diana glides through the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, one of the globe's most captivating and cosmopolitan art citadels. The airy icon reflects the beauty and beliefs of ancient Rome, and the renaissance of classical art across the Western Hemisphere. The Met is a virtual galaxy of art worlds, with constellations of masterworks from across the ages. Sculpted stone tablets chart one of humanity's greatest information technology revolutions - with the invention of Egyptian hieroglyphs 5000 years ago - and the museum's scholars might lead the world in chronicling carvings and writings created during the Ptolemy pharaohs' spellbinding project, millennia later, to fuse Greek and Egyptian deities and culture, temples and myths into a new super-civilisation. (https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ptol/hd_ptol.htm) The Met also leads in releasing 300,000+ images of its artworks for free downloading and remixing as a gift for another super-culture: the five billion people who are now interconnected via the World Wide Web. (https://www.metmuseum.org/press/news/2017/open-access)