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 ...
Researchers have long speculated about the purpose and meaning of pointy “head cones” depicted in Egyptian art. Now they’ve ...
Nadine Abdel Ghaffar, founder and director of Art d’Egypte, had good intentions when she launched an itinerant art exhibition of public art commissions in downtown Cairo in 2017. Calling the show “a ...
This piece has intrigued me from the beginning. It was recorded as coming from the village of Deir el-Medina on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, southern Egypt, whereas its style tells me it comes ...
An ancient Egyptian coffin with strange and amateurish decorations has been revealed, shedding light on a tumultuous period in Egyptian history when the Persian Empire was in control of the region. In ...
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Ancient Egyptian rock art discovered near Aswan may be from the dawn of the first dynasty
An ancient Egyptian rock engraving may have been carved at the dawn of the first dynasty, up to 5,100 years ago, a new study suggests. The engraving depicts a boat that may have a royal figure seated ...
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 ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Some sketches reflect the pain and isolation of prison life, others show inmates lying on the floor, reading or cooking. Together, the dozens of pictures drawn by ex-convict Yassin ...
Pedestrians, donkeys and cars swerved past our table in the narrow cobblestone street of Muiz li Dan Allah. Amir El-lithy's passionate discourse about contemporary art was interrupted by a wedding ...
Not what I expect to see in downtown St. Paul in the snow. The statue is in the green space on St. Peter Street and 6th Street. There isn’t any signage explaining what it is, but Google told me that ...
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered several pieces of ancient rock art from more than 3,000 years ago, according to a statement released by the country's Ministry of Antiquities. A joint ...
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