"Divine Egypt," a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, features nearly 250 artifacts representing the rich ...

There are many reasons why the art of ancient Egypt is perennially fascinating to audiences, ranging from people’s love of hieroglyphs and mummies (which some museums are now referring to as ...

The museum opens Nov. 4 near the Giza Pyramids, exhibiting more than 100,000 artifacts, including Tutankhamun’s full treasure ...

The engraving is stylistically similar to ancient Egyptian rock panels from the protodynastic period and early first dynasty — periods that aren't well known to archaeologists. These similarities hint ...

The Nile has forever been Egypt’s boon and its bane. In the 1950s, the country sought to control the river’s flooding by building the Aswan High Dam, an architectural wonder hailed as a modern pyramid ...

Shilo Shiv Suleman's Padma/Lotus is the first piece from an Indian artist to appear at the pyramids of Giza. Courtesy of the artist and Art d’Egypte Egypt’s annual “Forever Is Now” exhibition is back.

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The rock art panel shows a boat dragged by five figures. It has a standing figure holding an oar ...

The study of celestial objects ran throughout ancient Egyptian culture. Religious events were fixed by the movements of the sun and moon, star charts were carved into the lids of tombs, and the ...

Over 3,000 years ago, artists adorned the walls of the ThebanNecropolis with formal paintings and portraits. But they didn’t always get it right first time. Researchers analyzing works in two tombs ...

An Ancient Egyptian vase with a face resembling the deity Bes was found with traces of a mixture containing several psychedelic compounds. A recent preprint of a study intended for peer review, ...