And Art Deco, with its geometric shapes and sleek surfaces, traces back directly to — you guessed it — ancient Egypt. In fact, the label only emerged in the 1960s. Back in the 1920s and 1930s ...

From an art historical point of view, he is certainly a curiosity: unlike most Egyptian gods, who usually appear in profile, Bes is brazen and frontal, as well as comical. Some scholars suggest ...

Egyptian animal cults had extremely ... the bird sacred to Thoth, god of wisdom. (fourth to first centuries B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. By the end of the Ptolemaic period in ...

Moon Knight explores Egyptian mythology and its gods through the eyes of Steven Grant ... about an exhibition at the museum, saying that a poster is wrong because it only depicts seven of the ...

Some gods were specific to particular towns or ... would never have been exposed to anything other than traditional Egyptian art. The royal family are shown with elongated skulls and pear-shaped ...