Continuing our Art Deco Centenary series, we take a look at Paris's Le Louxor movie theatre, a trove of Egyptian revival in the birthplace of cinema. Le Louxor opened in Paris's 10th ...
Our Art Deco Centenary series rounds off where it began, with the 1925 exposition in Paris. We take a look at 10 stand-out structures built for the landmark event, which catapulted art deco onto ...
A chair shaped like a hooded cobra and a table that evokes a scarab beetle feature in designer Omar Chakil's Transcendence ...
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It’s the grandest and greatest art fair in the world, held every year and this year attracting around 270 dealers, all connoisseurs, all showing their very best, each work museum-worthy.
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Over two decades later, the aptly titled Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM ... also recently restored at the museum’s new state-of-the-art conservation center in preparation for public display.
Each year, after much consideration and debate, Afar’s global network of editors, writers, and travel advisors anoints the ...
Archaeologists have long assumed that ancient Egyptian pyramids were reserved for the richest members of society – but an analysis of burials at a site called Tombos suggests low-status workers ...
The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Abydos. The burial is located about 23 feet (7 meters) underground and contains a limestone burial chamber covered with mudbrick vaults ...
The pact was hailed as a triumph, but it cost Egypt dearly. It led not just to the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981 but also to Cairo’s marginalization in the region and its ...