An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift"—the band along the Milky Way caused by dust clouds. This is the ...

ARAC for Arts and Culture invited artists to transform facemasks into art pieces. ... Mask Mania 2020: When Egyptian visual artists use masks as canvas. Nevine Lamei, Tuesday 19 May 2020.

Archaeologists working in Saqqara recently unearthed three funerary masks at least 1,800 years old. By Franz Lidz When it came to the dicey journey to the afterlife, the more affluent citizens of ...

Mask in the form of the jackal head Anubis, ancient Egyptian god of embalming and the dead. It is made of cartonnage, layers of linen and papyrus, stiffened with plaster and then painted.

After comparing their descriptions with simulations of how the Egyptian night sky looked during those eras, Graur published an initial study in 2024 arguing Nut and the Milky Way were intertwined ...

Gemünden bought three art objects at an auction in the U.S. in 2020: the mask, the brooch and a 2,500-year-old coffin plaque. The collector was able to prove that the third item did not fall ...

Titus Flavius Demetrius was a Roman citizen living in Egypt who wanted to be buried in the Egyptian way. This gold covered mummy mask was made for the Roman citizen Titus Flavius Demetrius who ...

The collector and the gallery he endowed are known mostly for East Asian art and the work of American artist James McNeill Whistler. But Freer was briefly smitten with Egyptian objects, which in ...

Stock image of the Milky Way and the Dark River. CHAO-FENG LIN/iStock / Getty Images Plus. The present study builds upon Graur's previous work on ancient Egyptian depictions of the Milky Way ...

Mask in the form of the jackal head Anubis, ancient Egyptian god of embalming and the dead. It is made of cartonnage, layers of linen and papyrus, stiffened with plaster and then painted.