DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

Excavations in the Nile Delta have revealed multi-story tower houses, a granary, a ceremonial building, and eye-catching ...

When Egyptologist Gayle Gibson of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum showed images of an ancient Egyptian coffin to her colleagues, many assumed it was a fake. However according to Live Science, the ...

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 ...

Egyptian art is easily ... In many examples dating as far back as 2700 B.C. in the Early Dynastic Period, ... [Egyptian art] influenced art in the ancient Near East," such as ancient ...

A 2,400-year-old Egyptian coffin with strange decorations offers insights into a tumultuous period of Egyptian history, under the rule of the Persian Empire.

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s breathtaking exhibition, “The Dawn of Egyptian Art,” you won’t see any of that. This show covers the years between about 3900 B.C. and 2649 B.C., the period before ...

The ancient Egyptian pyramids at Giza have never been accurately dated, although we know that they were built approximately around the middle of the third millennium BC. The chronologies of this ...

The Orientalizing period in Greece refers to a roughly 100-year period in which Greek art was greatly influenced by eastern, and specifically Near Eastern and Egyptian, ideas, myths, and decorative ...

The exhibition On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt will open on July 18 at the Shanghai Museum. It is the first exhibition of ancient Egyptian art curated by Chinese scholars ...