The most common question that curator Edward Bleiberg fields from visitors to the Brooklyn Museum’s Egyptian art galleries is a straightforward but salient one: Why are the statues’ noses broken?

The Facebook page did not return a request for additional information. Statues displayed at Brooklyn Museum's Egyptian art galleries sit nose-less, and curator Edward Bleiberg searched for the ...

Inspection of a red granite statue of a priest and two deities reveals it is authentic The inspection ... priest seated behind two ancient Egyptian deities; Osiris and Isis. The statue is 56cm ...

"Serving the gods was one of the major duties of ancient Egyptian kings, and dedicating statues is a part of this," Raue explained. "Ideally, no ruler of Egypt should be in office without the ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists have uncovered the missing upper part of a "huge" statue depicting an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. A joint Egyptian-American archaeological mission ...