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, ...

Today a desert—as far as the eye can see. However, anyone looking more closely will discover hundreds of images carved into the rock. This ancient Egyptian graffiti attests to the fact that a new ...

‘A Collector’s Eye: Freer in Egypt’ shows that Charles Lang Freer may not always have known what he was buying, but he knew what he liked In a hallway of the Freer Gallery, you’ll find “Head of a ...

Egyptian archaeologists completing their 10th season of excavations at Gerza, 75 miles southwest of modern day Cairo, have announced the excavation of two full mummy portraits and further fragmentary ...

The 3,500-year-old stone head was found to have been “stolen and illegally exported from Egypt” after a rare tipoff from a ...