Temple of Dendur

Gallery 131 The one stop nobody should skip. This is a real sandstone temple, completed by 10 BCE, that Egypt gave to the United States in 1965 and that came to the Met in 1967. You can walk right up to the gateway and the temple itself, with the carved walls at eye level, while a huge wall of glass looks out toward Central Park. Give it 15 minutes and look for the reliefs of the Roman emperor Augustus dressed as a pharaoh, making offerings to Egyptian gods. Then cross into the American Wing.