A stone head that spent decades gathering dust on a wall has proved to be an Egyptian statue from an ancient ... The paperwork, drawings, and letters of provenance show it was found during ...

One detail that is typical for the period when this statue was made is that women’s dresses start going further down to cover the ankles. Plato admiringly said of Egyptian art that they don’t ...

While Egyptian statues and artworks that depict figures ... In this way, they directly contrast the art of Ancient Greece, where sculptures strived for ever more motion in their statues, as ...

"On art historical grounds, the statue can be dated to the later reign of Ramesses II," Trnka-Amrhein said. It is only the second colossal statue to be found in Middle Egypt—where Khemenu ...

The statue, which stands just 22 inches tall ... Kozloff, then the museum’s curator of ancient art and a specialist in Egyptian art. The Fleischmans are thought to have acquired the sculpture ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Egypt recently discovered the tombs of three senior statesmen in a burial site in Luxor. The identities and professions of all three men were inscribed in their tombs, giving ...

GIZA, Egypt — Even before it opened 12 enormous ... The galleries are lined with state-of-the-art cases with historic statues offering glimpses into the daily lives of not just the kings and ...