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Inscriptions on both sides of the entrance to the tomb name the Egyptian goddesses Isis and Nephthys. The two were sisters and were often paired together as Isis represented birth and Nephthys death.
As a Barbican retrospective celebrates the artist’s extraordinary career, we caught up with his wife Karon to hear about her ...
The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...
Archaeologists have unearthed the tomb of a yet unknown Egyptian pharaoh who ruled 3,600 years ago during a time of political instability in the region. At such a critical moment in US history, we ...
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) is home to one of the world’s most spectacular collections of art, sculpture, ...
It is from Geb and Nut’s union that the famous deities Osiris, Isis, Set ... Ma’at as a goddess is a famous image in ancient Egyptian art. Small bronze figures have been found across Egypt ...
Statues of the goddess Sekhmet ... Beirut and studied art history at the Sorbonne in Paris. Sent to Karnak by the Louvre, she became one of the leading authorities on Egyptian royal statuary.
At the Louvre Abu Dhabi, you won’t find an “Impressionism” wing or “ancient Greek sculptures” hall. Walking into the first of 23 galleries, visitors encounter a statuette of an Egyptian ...
Since then, Greek mummy portraits have been found all over Egypt, and they are now considered to be one of the most important types of art from ancient Egypt ... In this case, the indigenous Egyptian ...
Fraya Thomsen’s sweeping musical score whisks us on a journey made by ISIS, the sea floor rover named for the Egyptian goddess of healing and fertility ... as well as the strength they draw from their ...