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 ...

Egyptian artist Salma El-Sherif represented her country at the Open Art Exhibition at Nairobi’s National Museum of Kenya with her painting Wherever It Flows 2, a reflective depiction of the Nile that ...

It’s the stuff of Saturday matinees at the local cinema. Think of movies like 1932’s “The Mummy”—Egyptian Deco, the Scroll of Thoth, ossified eyelids opening. Or that midcentury one-two punch of Jules ...

There is a reason the Bible thunders at paganism with such fury. The tangible is taboo because it is so tempting. That, at least, is the impression one gathers from “Divine Egypt” at the Metropolitan ...

Ancient Egyptian art and design includes painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, furniture, textiles and other material objects produced by the civilization living in the Nile Valley from roughly ...

The magnificence of ancient Egypt comes to brilliant life through jewelry — the most precious and personal of human possessions — in “Jewels of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Treasures from the Worcester ...

My father, whose surname is King and who recently turned 79, often grumbles about growing old. To help put things in perspective, I invited him to join me on a trip to Egypt, where they started ...

Last week in this space, faithful readers will remember, I wrote about the once-grand, Egyptian-styled former police station on Rousseau Street in the Irish Channel. Faded though it now is, it’s ...