It's housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Scala, Florence Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten (“he who is beneficial to the Aten”) sometime after the fifth year of his ...

Tucked away in vintage coin collections and now resurfacing online for up to USD 40 (EGP 1,990), Egypt’s five piastres coin ...

"Both civilizations rose along rivers — the Nile, and the Yellow and Yangtze — which shaped their cultures, fostered ...

Despite the conspicuousness and majesty of Opet in art- works, no text describing ... Horemheb restored order to Egypt after the chaotic rule of Akhenaten, who upended Egypt’s religious and ...

who abandoned most of Egypt's old gods in favor of the Aten sun disk and brought in a new and more expressive style of art. Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt between 1379 and 1362 BC, built and lived in ...

Left: Ceiling painting from the palace of Amenhotep III ... Diagram from: Nicholson, P.T. (2007). Brilliant things for Akhenaten : The Egypt Exploration Society 2007 As a designer, learning from the ...

A painting once hailed as Paul Gauguin’s final self-portrait is now under renewed scrutiny after an amateur art sleuth raised doubts about its authenticity—sparking a fresh scientific ...

Pope Francis left a lasting legacy, not least his appreciation for art. In his 2025 biography, “Hope,” Francis spoke of his admiration for the Baroque painter Caravaggio. He recalled that ...

Diego Rivera was one of 20th Century art's towering figures—the Mexican icon who brought mural art onto the world's biggest stages. On the surface, these facts would seem to be unrelated—but ...

Glenn Spellman, a New York appraiser, treasure hunter, and art dealer, thought he had found something special last fall when he came across an abstract painting signed E.H. on the website for the ...