For being the world’s oldest known synthetic pigment, the original recipes for Egyptian blue remain a mystery. The ...

some of which contain colorful mummy masks and even the childlike statue of the god of silence, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The colorful mummy masks, which would ...

Recently, an expedition of Japanese and Egyptian archaeologists unearthed three such masks in a series of cut-rock tombs in the cliffs of Saqqara, a primary burial site for the Pharaonic capital ...

The batch of artifacts contained unique funerary masks, gilded wooden coffin lids ... "The pieces were present at the Egyptian Consulate in New York and were recovered over three years.

A silver face mask gilded with gold, a mummification workshop, mummies and sarcophagi have all been discovered at a tomb complex in Saqqara, Egypt, an Egyptian-German team announced this morning ...

ancient Egyptian god of embalming and the dead. It is made of cartonnage, layers of linen and papyrus, stiffened with plaster and then painted. It is one of only three surviving masks made for the ...

Washington Middle School sixth graders in Lisa Peterson, Cathy Pitts, Shane Knapp, Joel Sopak and Jennifer Lachajczyk’s classes not only learned about ancient civilizations, but also used their ...

Redwood Curtain welcomes Freshwater School’s Egyptian Mask Project to the theater ... chickens and making personalized death shroud masks in the style of the ancient mummified pharaohs.

“I’d never heard of this queen before,” Hawass says to CBS News. “Therefore, we add an important piece to Egyptian history, about this queen.” One of the artifacts discovered at Saqqara ...