Researchers have long speculated about the purpose and meaning of pointy “head cones” depicted in Egyptian art. Now they’ve ...

Carved into rock near the village of El-Khawy in southern Egypt, a massive line of ancient hieroglyphs has just been brought ...

Rescued from rising waters, transported across an ocean and rebuilt in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the ancient ...

Snap, owner of the video messaging app Snapchat, has partnered with the Louvre on a free program called Egypt Augmented, which will give users an interactive deep dive into the museum’s renowned ...

Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...

There are many reasons why the art of ancient Egypt is perennially fascinating to audiences, ranging from people’s love of hieroglyphs and mummies (which some museums are now referring to as ...

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

For many artists, the most challenging subject to master is the human face. The fault lies not in any intrinsic element of our features themselves – though our foreheads, eyes, cheeks, noses, mouths, ...

Discover how to create a stunning Egyptian-themed artwork using decoupage, texture paste, and stenciling on an MDF board.

Whenever one imagines the life of an archeologist, they tend to picture someone discovering some remarkable artifact after clearing away dirt, sand, or debris. Perhaps they even envision some ...

In an archaeological first, scientists have scraped the organic residue within a 2,000-year-old head-shaped drinking vessel, called a Bes mug, to identify its past contents. Bottoms up for Bes.