In the 1920s, archaeologists excavating the necropolis of Deir el-Bahri near Luxor, Egypt, found many broken statues of the ...

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s breathtaking exhibition, “The Dawn of Egyptian Art,” you won’t see any of that. This show covers the years between about 3900 B.C. and 2649 B.C., the period before ...

Yi Wong from the University of Toronto analysed broken statues of the pharaoh Hatshepsut and found that—contrary to some ...

Is the Grand Egyptian Museum worth visiting? What you can see – and what’s missing – before it fully opens - After a wait of ...

For example, during one brief yet notable episode in Egyptian history during around 1350 BC, the pharaoh Akhenaten instituted sweeping changes in Egyptian society, including moving the capital to a ...

The ancient Egyptian civilization lasted more than 3,000 years, and practices surrounding the Eye of Horus changed over time. "In later periods, a large wedjat made of wax was placed over the left ...

The Egyptian art of khayamiya Omnia Haridy, Tuesday 29 Oct 2024 Omnia Haridy takes a journey into the world of khayamiya, or tentmaking, one of the country’s oldest and best-known traditional crafts ...

When it was made: Around 1473 B.C. This amulet, shaped like a scarab beetle, was discovered in the tomb of an ancient Egyptian noblewoman named Hatnefer. But the charm, which was intended to ...

Or Graur, associate professor at the University of Portsmouth, to identify what may be the first known visual representation of our galaxy in Egyptian art. In his study, published in the Journal of ...

In 2023 and 2024, internet users shared photos that purportedly showed an ancient Egyptian coffin lid featuring a painting of Marge Simpson, the long-suffering matriarch in FOX animated series ...