Most of the animals in Egyptian paintings are there for religious reasons ... The artist added beeswax to the women’s hair and clothes to make them shimmer. (Image: copyright British Museum ...

Cleveland Museum of Art / Chanel In 1924 ... Contemplating the spectrum of contemporary clothing inspired by ancient Egypt is “like [looking into] a kaleidoscope,” Lisby says, as every ...

“Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now,” an exhibition recently opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores 150 years of that creative endeavor, from a painting ...

An ancient Egyptian tomb, dating back more than 4,000 ... The mud-brick tomb is in good condition and features various paintings of Hetpet, who was a priestess to Hathor, the goddess of fertility.

Here’s how it works. Nearly five millennia ago, an artist inked an incredibly detailed painting of geese in the tomb of an Egyptian vizier and his wife. This "Mona Lisa" of ancient Egypt may ...