Think you know Cairo? Think again. While most travelers tick off the Pyramids of Giza, the Egyptian Museum, and Khan El ...

Ayan Farah, Desert Seeds, 2025 Presented by Kadel Willborn (Düsseldorf) and Galerie Nordenhake (Berlin, Mexico City, ...

More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long ...

The long-awaited museum was due to open in July, but official celebrations have been pushed back amid escalating regional ...

An Italian museum has called on patrons to "respect art" after a couple was filmed breaking a chair covered in hundreds of glittering crystals. Footage released by the Palazzo Maffei, in Verona, shows ...

In a nutshell Ancient Egyptian artisans developed precise, repeatable recipes to create four distinct shades of Egyptian blue ...

Egyptian art was always both beautiful and ... the couple’s—where placing images of the deceased was a pious act. “People started preparing for the next world as soon as they could afford ...

Depictions of the blue lotus appear everywhere in Egyptian art and artifacts ... This wasn’t just artistic appreciation — these images documented a sophisticated understanding of plant ...

CHAO-FENG LIN/iStock / Getty Images Plus The present study builds upon Graur's previous work on ancient Egyptian depictions of the Milky Way, which examined assorted sources, including both the ...

Graur spent the next year diving even deeper into the theory, reviewing 125 images of Nut depicted across 555 Egyptian coffins from nearly 5,000 years ago. While often illustrated as a naked woman ...

For them, the images had a more important purpose - representing the life of the tomb's occupant and forming the basis of their life after death. Yet Egyptian art did evolve over the years.

Jemolo/Getty Images During funeral ceremonies ... As a rule, early ancient Egyptian art depicts mostly female dancers, but there are exceptions. A well-preserved depiction from the third ...