WORCESTER — “Jewels of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Treasures from Worcester Art Museum,” a new exhibition which opened Friday at WAM, features everything you would expect to see from that storied era, ...

Sixty-five years ago, the monumental Abu Simbel was destined to disappear beneath the floodwaters of a new Nile dam. Then the ...

How did chemist Alfred Lucas, dubbed "Egypt's Sherlock Holmes," save the fragile treasures recovered from King Tut's tomb?

My father always told me: in Sohag, the moment you open the door, nature greets you,’’ says Gehad Abdalla, an Egyptian artist originally from Sohag. ‘‘Everything we create come ...

A copy of the Decree of Canopus, which was vital in breaking the enigma of hieroglyphics, has been found at a site north of ...

Six thousand years ago, the Egyptian wilderness was a very different place. Lions ruled, zebras gathered in large herds, giraffes foraged from tall trees. We know that, in part, thanks to drawings on ...

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 ...

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 bracelet had a fairly simple design, said an Egyptologist. Gold represented the "flesh of the gods," while lapis lazuli, ...

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one ...

Purple walls, bright rugs and Egyptian furnishings and accessories fill the 3,000-foot home Mary Jochim shares with teacup poodle Mini Me. The empty penthouse that Mary fell in love with. Plants are ...

Egyptian police said on Thursday they arrested a museum employee and three alleged accomplices after a priceless ancient gold bracelet was stolen from Cairo's Egyptian Museum, sold for about $4,000 ...