The first is a painting of Ramesses II, an Egyptian pharaoh also known as Ramesses ... The language of ancient Egypt has no known word for ‘art’, and the civilisation is often perceived ...

A rare mummified falcon from Egypt that dates back about 2,600 years is to go on sale this week at Abu Dhabi Art, where it is ...

The mummified bird, known as The God of the Pharaoh, was acquired by its current private Austrian collector after being ...

The mummified body of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh has been studied for the first time in millennia after being digitally "unwrapped". The mummy of Amenhotep I, who ruled from 1525 to 1504 BC ...

For "Rameses," which he began calling himself after becoming pharaoh in 1307 B.C ... his son Seti I ushered in a period of art and culture unrivaled in later Egyptian civilization, and his ...

What it tells us about the past: The "Younger Memnon" is an 8.8-foot-tall (2.7 meter) broken head and torso remnant of a statue from ancient Egypt that now stands in the British Museum in London.

This story appears in the May 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Crime scene investigators are about to get an assist from the land of the pharaohs. New research has shown that a pigment ...

The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht is the zenith of art fairs in quality, prestige, and cachet. Starting on March 7 and continuing this week, 270 high-end dealers gathered to offer ...

This book follows the life story of Amenhotep III, one of the most important rulers of ancient Egypt, from his birth and into the ... as well as the evolution of religious rituals and the cult of the ...