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, ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

But he also had a personal interest in it. He had been born and raised in Egypt and was enamored with Egyptian art and art about Egypt. “At this point, after 10 years at the Met, almost ...

For centuries before Narmer, predynastic Egyptian cultures had been carving humans. We have examples of human sculpture in the Nile region from as far back as the Merimde culture, a Neolithic society ...

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Taken together, the work feels like a fittingly stirring reconfiguration of what is one of the greatest repositories of ancient Egyptian art outside of Egypt, and one that speaks to the complexity ...

“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 ...

As a rule, early ancient Egyptian art depicts mostly female dancers, but there are exceptions. A well-preserved depiction from the third millennium B.C. comes from the early 2nd-dynasty tomb of ...