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 ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

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, ...

For millennia, humans have experienced Egyptomania, the allure and fascination with ancient Egyptian culture. Now comes the Cleveland Museum of Art exhibit “Egyptomania: Fashion’s Conflicted Obsession ...

Several tombs in the necropolises of Egypt depict figures dancing across the walls and playing instruments. But when Egyptologists took a closer look, they were able to piece together how the art form ...

A sleek, proud bronze created in honor of the Egyptian goddess Bastet, “Cat” has lived at least six of her nine lives already. She was born between 664 and 332 BC, during Egypt’s Saite dynasty. A ...

An extinct and previously unknown species of goose has been identified from an ancient Egyptian painting that once adorned the walls of a mastaba, or tomb, according to a recently published analysis.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In the main sculpture hall of the St. Louis Art Museum, colossal statues of an ancient pharaoh, a queen and a fertility god keep ...

“Life-sized painted bust of the queen, 47 cm high. With the flat-cut blue wig, which also has a ribbon wrapped around it halfway up,” Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt wrote in his diary on December 6, ...