Ancient Egyptian civilization lasted some 3,000 years; the show, which runs into January, covers all periods and features ...
Divine Egypt' explores how the gods and imagery were experienced in temples, shrines, and tombs, and how they came to life in ...
"Divine Egypt," a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, features nearly 250 artifacts representing the rich ...
The work, taken from the tomb of a vizier called Khentika, features a motif that is extremely rare in Ancient Egyptian art ...
Black artists have long claimed ancient Egypt as their own. Now they’re telling their stories in person on the museum’s floor. By Aruna D’Souza The artist Lorraine O’Grady once wrote of her ...
The familial statue mixed together different styles of craftsmanship in a way never before seen in ancient Egyptian culture.
Ancient Egyptian art often shows men with bald or shaved heads, but this was not a sign of age or illness. It symbolized ...
This piece has intrigued me from the beginning. It was recorded as coming from the village of Deir el-Medina on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, southern Egypt, whereas its style tells me it comes ...
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 ...
Nadine Abdel Ghaffar, founder and director of Art d’Egypte, had good intentions when she launched an itinerant art exhibition of public art commissions in downtown Cairo in 2017. Calling the show “a ...
The incident comes weeks after another incident that shook the archaeological community: the disappearance of a gold bracelet ...