The temple walls' reliefs were restored to reveal colorful paint that decorated carvings of Egyptian gods. Martin Stadler / University of Würzburg Egypt’s second-largest ancient temple is ...

Conservation work on a 2,200-year-old temple in Egypt has uncovered 12 reliefs representing ... up of 46 depictions of Egyptian goddesses Nekhbet and Wadjet, as well as painted inscriptions ...

A collaboration between the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and ... Artists would have painted the ceiling in relief around the end of the 2nd century CE. Depiction of winged snakes and an animal ...

These restoration efforts have involved cleaning off the reliefs that were ... of "dipinti"—graffiti painted in ink—that was written in the ancient Egyptian Demotic script, which was common ...

More than 3,000 years ago, ancient Egyptian artists flubbed a royal portrait ... According to the researchers, the shebyu collar was painted over and replaced with a "wesekh" necklace, a flat ...

A painted relief on a column inside the hall features ... The team has uncovered and photographed scenes that reveal how ancient Egyptians depicted and worshipped their gods and how they conceived ...

led by Hisham El-Leithy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and Christian Leitz of the University of Tübingen, is restoring the temple’s vibrant painted reliefs to their ...

An ancient Egyptian limestone relief depicting a group of sleeping female musicians is at risk of leaving the UK if a domestic buyer cannot be found. The artwork shows the musicians asleep in the ...

The reliefs’ striking colors weren’t the ... Discovering preserved paint in ancient Egyptian temples is rare, but finding gold leaf is even less common. The Egyptians began covering columns ...