The ancient Egyptians had no word for art and no concept of art for art's sake. For them, the images had a more important purpose - representing the life of the tomb's occupant and forming the ...

Scientists have recreated the elusive Egyptian blue, a pigment used by ancient Egyptian artists for thousands of years.

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 ...

It is the first exhibition of ancient Egyptian art curated by Chinese scholars and researchers, as well as the largest showcase of Egyptian art in China, featuring 788 objects selected from the ...

Perhaps they even envision some assemblage of overgrowth obscuring a remarkable work of ancient art. What’s probably ... from the university and Egyptian restorers from the country’s Ministry ...

One was femininity: in ancient Egyptian art, Wegner said, women "are often shown with a sort of yellowish or pale [skin] color, while men are shown with reddish brown skin." Another reason the ...

One of the ancient Egyptian pantheon’s ... concoction contained in the Tampa Museum of Art’s Bes mug, including the plants used by Egyptians.” According to the study’s authors, all of ...