Pit-firing leaves smoke traces on ceramic pieces, giving them a look of antiquity, a texture, and causing variations in ...

Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...

Ancient Egyptian art and design includes painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, furniture, textiles and other material objects produced by the civilization living in the Nile Valley from roughly ...

“The Dawn of Egyptian Art” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Apr. 10-Aug. 5, 2012, explores Egyptian civilization before the pharaohs and the codification of hieroglyphics, when this developing ...

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 ...

For many artists, the most challenging subject to master is the human face. The fault lies not in any intrinsic element of our features themselves – though our foreheads, eyes, cheeks, noses, mouths, ...

Have you ever wondered what secrets, magic spells and stories are painted in ancient Egyptian tombs? Are you curious about why the pharaohs always “Walk Like an Egyptian”? The archaeological remains ...

Rescued from rising waters, transported across an ocean and rebuilt in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the ancient ...

French sculptor Auguste Rodin may have risen to the kind of renown reserved for the greats who inspired him, like Italian masters Michelangelo and Donatello. But one aspect of his art and life has ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and more. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

An extinct and previously unknown species of goose has been identified from an ancient Egyptian painting that once adorned the walls of a mastaba, or tomb, according to a recently published analysis.