Divine Egypt' explores how the gods and imagery were experienced in temples, shrines, and tombs, and how they came to life in ...
With her mouth wide open, locked for eternity in what appears to be a scream, an ancient Egyptian woman captured the imagination of archaeologists who discovered her mummified remains in 1935 in a ...
The powerful gods of ancient Egypt are having a get-together on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. That would be at the ...
Khentika’s tomb is a mastaba, one of the few in Egypt to have a curse inscribed on its facade. Mastabas were rectangular, ...
Nut’s cosmological vignette on the outer coffin of Nesitaudjatakhet in the collection of Odessa Archaeological Museum OAM 52976 (C107). Nut’s body is covered in stars as well as a thick, undulating ...
Egyptian archaeologists in North Sinai have discovered a more than 3,000-year-old fortress that once defended an ancient ...
Ancient Egyptian art often shows men with bald or shaved heads, but this was not a sign of age or illness. It symbolized hygiene, purity, and social status. Priests and nobles shaved their heads to ...
YORK CITY. IT’S KNOWN AS FASHION’S BIGGEST NIGHT, WITH SOME OF THE WORLD’S BIGGEST STARS IN ATTENDANCE. BUT JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO, AN IOWA ARTIFACT WAS ON DISPLAY IN THE CITY. KCCI OLIVIA TYLER TELLS ...
Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...
NEW YORK CITY — A man who worked with tomb raiders was sentenced to prison for smuggling hundreds of ancient relics looted from crypts in Egypt, including sculptures from 1900 BCE and the carving of a ...