Nadine Abdel Ghaffar, founder and director of Art d’Egypte, had good intentions when she launched an itinerant art exhibition of public art commissions in downtown Cairo in 2017. Calling the show “a ...

A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light on the formation of the ancient Egyptian state. The late 4th millennium BC ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

JR's Greetings From Giza is one of ten enormous art installations featured in the "Forever Is Now" exhibition. Courtesy of JR The landscape of Egypt’s Giza Plateau and its famed pyramids has changed ...

Cairo — As I write this story, I am in my room overlooking the main square of Cairo, ironically called Tahrir Square, which means Liberty in Arabic. The square is buzzing with what news agencies ...

A masterpiece of ancient Egyptian art found in a palace is so finely detailed that researchers have been able to pinpoint the bird species it depicts. These images of the natural world likely created ...

Quartzite fragment with the hieroglyphic name of the sun god Aten, from a statue of Akhenaten or Nefertiti (ca 1350 BCE), picked up by Anne Goodison at Akhenaten’s city of Tell el-Amarna in January ...

Editor’s Note: This article was published in partnership with Artsy, the global platform for discovering and collecting art. The original article can be seen here. The most common question that ...

An extinct and previously unknown species of goose has been identified from an ancient Egyptian painting that once adorned the walls of a mastaba, or tomb, according to a recently published analysis.