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 ...

Ancient Egyptian art and design includes painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, furniture, textiles and other material objects produced by the civilization living in the Nile Valley from roughly ...

For many artists, the most challenging subject to master is the human face. The fault lies not in any intrinsic element of our features themselves – though our foreheads, eyes, cheeks, noses, mouths, ...

Rock engraving of a Protodynastic boat from Wadi Abu Subeira. Credit: Dorian Vanhulle, AKAP A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, ...

Their faces draw you in — big, expressive eyes staring out as if they’ve been frozen in the act of remembering something important. Painted on wooden panels and placed over the faces of mummified ...

French sculptor Auguste Rodin may have risen to the kind of renown reserved for the greats who inspired him, like Italian masters Michelangelo and Donatello. But one aspect of his art and life has ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and more. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Here’s what you will learn when you read this story: Famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass discovered a statue that he said rewrites what we know about Egyptian art history. The familial statue mixed ...

How do you adequately fill an art-historical gap? A retrospective for Chafik Charobim was held at the American University in Cairo’s Margo Veillon Gallery of Modern Egyptian Art last December. Curated ...