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Meet 25 of the Ancient Egyptians’ Most Significant Gods and Goddesses, From the Falcon-Headed Horus to the Sky Deity Hathor
"Divine Egypt," a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, features nearly 250 artifacts representing the rich ...
The large relief is one of only two known pieces of art that depict illustrations of the seasons. Now it’s gone.
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 ...
An artwork depicting the seasons of ancient Egypt's farming calendar has gone missing from the famed Saqqara necropolis near ...
The renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York purchased a collection of 4,000-year-old Egyptian artifacts found a century ago by a British explorer, averting a plan to auction the antiquities ...
The relief, taken from the tomb of a vizier called Khentika, features a motif that is extremely rare in Ancient Egyptian art ...
A priceless ancient Egyptian wall painting has been stolen from Saqqara’s Khenti-Ka tomb, prompting a major investigation by ...
For many artists, the most challenging subject to master is the human face. The fault lies not in any intrinsic element of our features themselves – though our foreheads, eyes, cheeks, noses, mouths, ...
Hyperallergic travels to Cairo to see one among a new wave of exhibitions that are reintroducing Egyptian modern art to a wider audience. According to an Italian Egyptologist, one of the Egyptian ...
Researchers from the University of Queensland have examined a 4600-year-old Egyptian painting. During the examination, a rendering of a speckled goose stood out. Scientist Dr. Anthony Romilio noticed ...
The incident comes weeks after another incident that shook the archaeological community: the disappearance of a gold bracelet ...
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something eight-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, ...
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