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Meet 25 of the Ancient Egyptians’ Most Significant Gods and Goddesses, From the Falcon-Headed Horus to the Sky Deity Hathor
"Divine Egypt," a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, features nearly 250 artifacts representing the rich ...
The Egyptian embassy in London is in a race against time to try to stop the planned sale of a sculpture of Tutankhamen at Christie’s after the country’s most high-profile archaeologist claimed it was ...
This piece has intrigued me from the beginning. It was recorded as coming from the village of Deir el-Medina on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, southern Egypt, whereas its style tells me it comes ...
But these examples are, in fact, more than two millennia old, and they all appear in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's soon-to-open "Divine Egypt," which suggests that the ancient Egyptians kept it ...
The familial statue mixed together different styles of craftsmanship in a way never before seen in ancient Egyptian culture.
Ancient Egyptian art is the focus of this issue of Scolastic's Art & man magazine for children. Articles cover Egyptian statuary, King Tut's tomb, the influence of Egypt on present day artists. Also ...
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This ancient “Messi” Egyptian Statue Rewrites the Rules of Art History
In 2021, archaeologists digging at Gisr el-Mudir in Saqqara uncovered a limestone statue buried in the sand. At first, it ...
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This New Exhibition Explores the Lives of Ancient Egyptian Makers
These talented craftspeople specialized in ceramics, sculpture, jewelry, stonemasonry, coffin decorating and other art forms ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In the main sculpture hall of the St. Louis Art Museum, colossal statues of an ancient pharaoh, a queen and a fertility god keep ...
A recent investigation of Abydos North Cemetery has yielded traces of a nearly completely plundered Late Period burial, which contained a wooden sledge-shaped base of a statuette. The statuette itself ...
For many artists, the most challenging subject to master is the human face. The fault lies not in any intrinsic element of our features themselves – though our foreheads, eyes, cheeks, noses, mouths, ...
The incident comes weeks after another incident that shook the archaeological community: the disappearance of a gold bracelet ...
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