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Today a desert—as far as the eye can see. However, anyone looking more closely will discover hundreds of images carved into ...
In conjunction with the “Mummies of the World” display at the Museum of Idaho, two world-renowned egyptologists will pay a ...
This unique disk-shaped bowl, found in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian tomb, has puzzled archaeologists for nearly a century.
The opening of the 2022 Art D'Égypte and the upcoming unveiling of the Grand Egyptian Museum conceal problems lurking under the surface.
The soul house, which dates to around 2055 to 1650 B.C.E., was originally excavated at Deir Rifa, a series of ancient Egyptian cemeteries north of Luxor, on the west bank of the Nile, the Art ...
There are many reasons why the art of ancient Egypt is perennially fascinating to audiences, ranging from people’s love of hieroglyphs and mummies (which some museums are now referring to as ...
Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age ...
Newfound rock art from ancient Egypt may shed light on the time just before the first dynasty.
A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light on the formation of the ancient Egyptian state.
For millennia, humans have experienced Egyptomania, the allure and fascination with ancient Egyptian culture. Now comes the Cleveland Museum of Art exhibit “Egyptomania: Fashion’s Conflicted ...
Art Freer Gallery celebrates its namesake and his eye for Egyptian art ‘A Collector’s Eye: Freer in Egypt’ shows that Charles Lang Freer may not always have known what he was buying, but he ...
The dancers Sidra Bell and AJ Libert rehearsing in the performance gallery of “Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.