When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Eye of Horus engraved on a gold plate. This artifact was found in the tomb of the ancient ...

‘A Collector’s Eye: Freer in Egypt’ shows that Charles Lang Freer may not always have known what he was buying, but he knew what he liked In a hallway of the Freer Gallery, you’ll find “Head of a ...

The Eye of Horus, an omnipresent symbol in Ancient Egypt, is often associated with amulets and burials, carrying a spiritual and protective dimension. In Egyptian mythology, Horus, son of Osiris, lost ...

Nadine Abdel Ghaffar is passionate about fusing fashion, art, Egyptian culture- and presenting it to Egyptians and the world. Egypt’s seven-thousand-year history brings the northeastern African nation ...

There are many reasons why the art of ancient Egypt is perennially fascinating to audiences, ranging from people’s love of hieroglyphs and mummies (which some museums are now referring to as ...

On a bright late-winter morning recently, Lawrence Berman was in his natural habitat, as far away from daylight as he could get. The senior curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art ...

An archaeologist has studied broken statues of Queen Hatshepsut—one of the few women to rule as an Egyptian pharaoh, 4,000 years ago—and found that they were not attacked during the persecution of her ...

Over 3,000 years ago, artists adorned the walls of the ThebanNecropolis with formal paintings and portraits. But they didn’t always get it right first time. Researchers analyzing works in two tombs ...