Ancient Egyptian art and texts tell of wealthy elite traveling along the Nile on luxury pleasure boats known as the thalamegos, basically early versions of modern superyachts. Now, archaeologists ...

With the Grand Egyptian Museum open and Alexandria’s biennial returning, Egypt is positioning itself as a regional cultural ...

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 ...

Pedestrians, donkeys and cars swerved past our table in the narrow cobblestone street of Muiz li Dan Allah. Amir El-lithy's passionate discourse about contemporary art was interrupted by a wedding ...

The Egyptian gods have gathered in New York. From the falcon-headed Horus to the lioness Sakhmet, the shrouded Osiris to the cow goddess Hathor and the sky-bending Nut, these divine beings—drawn from ...

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 ...

Their faces draw you in — big, expressive eyes staring out as if they’ve been frozen in the act of remembering something important. Painted on wooden panels and placed over the faces of mummified ...

Discover a step-by-step guide to creating stunning Egyptian hieroglyphics wall art using stucco marble paste and stencils.

George Bahgoury, one of Egypt’s most prominent painters and caricaturists, will be featured in the exhibition “Bahgoury and ...

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...