This fall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is taking visitors on a journey to ancient Egypt. “Divine Egypt,” which runs ...

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, ...

At The Met, “Divine Egypt” brings a 3,000-year pantheon of gods to life through sculpture, relief, and sacred art.

In ancient Egyptian belief, false doors allowed the spirit of the deceased to pass between this world and the next. If this ...

But these examples are, in fact, more than two millennia old, and they all appear in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's soon-to ...

Several tombs in the necropolises of Egypt depict figures dancing across the walls and playing instruments. But when Egyptologists took a closer look, they were able to piece together how the art form ...

Worshipers of the ancient Egyptian god Bes ingested a mix of psychoactive drugs, human blood, and other bodily fluids in their mysterious ceremonies, according to a new paper. The 15 authors of the ...

Sasha Grishin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The iconic prize was designed almost a century ago by MGM art director Cedric Gibbons, and bears a striking resemblance to ancient depictions of Ptah, the Egyptian god of artists and craftsmen. By ...