Countless people around the world have been captivated by ancient Egypt since Roman times, but especially after King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered in 1922, Egyptomania spread across Europe and the ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

this aquatic beauty wasn’t just decorative — it was practically ancient Egypt’s pharmacy in a flower. Depictions of the blue lotus appear everywhere in Egyptian art and artifacts.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York houses many artifacts that give a glimpse into the daily routines of ancient Egyptians. It is surprising to know that much care and thought went into ...

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift"—the band along the Milky Way caused by dust clouds. This is the ...

In December 2017, the ministry launched a comprehensive rescue project to restore Tanis and to develop the site into an open-air museum of Ancient Egyptian art.

Dark, direct, soulful: The eyes of the Al Fayyum portraits stare out and invite viewers in to see the faces of Egyptians who lived thousands of years ago, when the Greek Ptolemy rule gave way to Rome.

Every year ancient Egyptians eagerly anticipated the coming ... Despite the conspicuousness and majesty of Opet in art- works, no text describing the event survives. Neither have traces of a ...

In his study, Dr. Graur reviewed 125 images of the sky-goddess Nut (pronounced "Noot"), found among 555 ancient Egyptian coffins dating back nearly 5,000 years. Combining astronomy with Egyptology ...

Nut’s cosmological vignette on the outer coffin of Nesitaudjatakhet in the collection of Odessa Archaeological Museum OAM 52976 (C107). Nut’s body is covered in stars as well as a thick ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced this week it had successfully recovered a rare trove of smuggled ...

The glorious river of stars, interwoven with dark dust, that makes up the plane of the Milky Way in the night sky may have been hiding in plain sight in art from ancient Egypt. Some depictions of the ...