Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful predecessor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be ...

Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...

Evidence of textile workshops demonstrates that girls’ labour was valued enough to be documented in administrative records ...

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, ...

The New Kingdom of ancient Egypt was a golden age of architecture and art. A variety of factors combined to make the New Kingdom one of the most creative cultures of the ancient world. The empire ...

Many graves from their society contain examples of female mortuary figures that would accompany the dead, perhaps prefiguring the religious rituals that would come to dominate our understanding of ...

Perhaps they even envision some assemblage of overgrowth obscuring a remarkable work of ancient art. What’s probably ... best ...

“Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now,” an exhibition recently opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores 150 years of that creative endeavor, from a painting ...

On 14 August at Australian Ambassador Axel Wabenhorst’s residence in Zamalek, Sam Bowker, Associate Professor in Creative Art at Charles Sturt University, spoke about bringing Egyptian art to ...

Omnia Haridy takes a journey into the world of khayamiya, or tentmaking, one of the country’s oldest and best-known traditional crafts Egypt has always boasted a diverse range of crafts and ...