The renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York purchased a collection of 4,000-year-old Egyptian artifacts found a century ago by a British explorer, averting a plan to auction the antiquities ...
Researchers have long speculated about the purpose and meaning of pointy “head cones” depicted in Egyptian art. Now they’ve ...
Nadine Abdel Ghaffar, founder and director of Art d’Egypte, had good intentions when she launched an itinerant art exhibition of public art commissions in downtown Cairo in 2017. Calling the show “a ...
This piece has intrigued me from the beginning. It was recorded as coming from the village of Deir el-Medina on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, southern Egypt, whereas its style tells me it comes ...
Detail of a gilded coffin lid for the Priest Nedjemankh (late Ptolemaic Period, 150-50 BCE) (all images © the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) The Metropolitan ...
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something eight-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, ...
NEW HAVEN -- The words "ancient Egyptian art" brings to mind the popular tomb art found in the region of the Upper Nile, created between 5000 BC and about 300 AD. As ancient as those works are, ...
After six years of closure and restoration work, the Museum of Modern Egyptian Art has reopened its doors to the public in December 2020. We are given the privilege to be guided through the museum’s ...
Quartzite fragment with the hieroglyphic name of the sun god Aten, from a statue of Akhenaten or Nefertiti (ca 1350 BCE), picked up by Anne Goodison at Akhenaten’s city of Tell el-Amarna in January ...
Much of the modern Egyptian sense of humour has its roots in ancient times, writes Zahi Hawass Egyptians have always had a reputation for their light and witty sense of humour. Even today, it doesn’t ...
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