It doesn’t matter what the rest of it is, which was really quite surprising to us,” said John McCloy, director of Washington ...

Created 5,000 years ago, the mysterious color has been found on artworks and artifacts throughout the ancient world. But the ...

This video explores an alternative theory proposing that the symbolic Djed Pillar, often seen in Egyptian art, may have served a mechanical purpose in pyramid construction. Shared by engineer Stephen ...

Textiles served as humanity's first architectural elements, predating ancient construction methods ... see different kinds of examples of how this concept is revived. While some projects use ...

This artifact was found in the tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Psusennes I ... 664 B.C. and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. | Credit: Purchase, Edward S.

Given the Grand Egyptian Museum‘s unparalleled status globally and its collection of ancient Egyptian masterpieces ... Tourist zones, in this concept, are similar to green zones, which are governed by ...

A long-lost ancient cemetery opens the door to a unique ... BUDKA: The burials are located on the West Bank, because in the Egyptian concept of the netherworld, the entrance to the netherworld ...

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 ...

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 ...