The engravings and drawings are divided into several groups, researchers learned in their initial study of the space, the ...
After Egypt was conquered by Persia in 525 BCE, many of its beloved tomb painters were scattered across the empire. Outside their homeland, the craft they’d cultivated for centuries floundered as ...
On the plateau overlooking the ancient Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, a major outdoor art exhibition brings together the work of 14 international contemporary artists who have created site-specific ...
A self-portrait of an artist and ex-political convict Yassin Mohamed in inmate's prison clothes is seen at his home in Cairo, Egypt April 2, 2019. Picture taken April 2, 2019. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah ...
Archaeologists have discovered a 10,000-year-old site with rock art in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, the country's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said Thursday.
The people who clustered along the Nile River in ancient times didn’t call their land Egypt. They called it Kemet — literally, “the black land,” so named for the fertile soil suffused by nutrients ...
An artwork depicting the seasons of the ancient Egyptian calendar has gone missing from the famed Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. A British mission working in the tomb discovered that the piece had ...
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something eight-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, ...
Nadine Abdel Ghaffar is passionate about fusing fashion, art, Egyptian culture- and presenting it to Egyptians and the world. Egypt’s seven-thousand-year history brings the northeastern African nation ...
Archaeologists have discovered a panel containing the only known example of spider rock art in Egypt and, it appears, the entire Old World. The rock panel, now in two pieces, was found on the west ...