The Amarna Letters contain records of ancient lords and rulers seeking to establish diplomatic ties with Egyptian pharaohs.

Quartzite fragment with the hieroglyphic name of the sun god Aten, from a statue of Akhenaten or Nefertiti (ca 1350 BCE), picked up by Anne Goodison at Akhenaten’s city of Tell el-Amarna in January ...

Art history has all but forgotten the love that sculptor Auguste Rodin had for the art of Egypt. A new exhbition in New York is fixing that.

A recent investigation of Abydos North Cemetery has yielded traces of a nearly completely plundered Late Period burial, which contained a wooden sledge-shaped base of a statuette. The statuette itself ...

A Catfight in a Snake Pit in Philly’s Art Museum NRPLUS Conference Call with Meir Soloveichik and Rich Lowry Dracula Reimagined as Socialist Trauma The U.K.’s About-Face on Puberty Blockers for ...

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

Left: Lapis lazuli figure of a woman, 3325-2575BC. Right: Cartonnage mummy-case of a priest called Nakhtefmut, 924-889BC Lapis lazuli figure: Photo: Ashmolean Museum/Bridgeman Images. Cartonnage mummy ...

At the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, ‘From Green Papyrus to Timeless Art’ resurrects an ancient medium for writing through the ...

This Ancient Egyptian bronze statue from the Ptolemaic era once contained a mummified cat! Join Andrew as he takes viewers to look at a peculiar item in the Dr. Gabriel Manigault Collection at the ...

Scientists have adopted a novel technique using wasp nests to estimate the age of previously undateable rock art, called Gwions, in the Kimberly region of Western Australia. The results appear to ...

The expansiveness of the galleries immediately catches one's eye. That, and the way the Museum of Fine Arts uses a massive 10,000-square-foot exhibition called "Ancient Nubia Now" to set the record ...