More than 3,000 years ago, an earthquake toppled two monumental statues of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III. Now, after decades of restoration work, the artworks, called the Colossi of ...
Scholars have long believed that Hatshepsut’s spiteful successor wanted to destroy every image of her, but the truth may be more nuanced. Reading time 3 minutes Hatshepsut is one of the most famous ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hatshepsut ruled as the pharaoh of Egypt around 3,500 years ago. Her reign was an exceptionally successful one – she was a ...
Famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass discovered a statue that he said rewrites what we know about Egyptian art history. The familial statue mixed together different styles of craftsmanship in a way never ...
The colossus of ancient Egyptian King Ramses II is transferred to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), about 2 km north the Great ...
Archaeologists working at Tell el-Faraoun in Egypt’s Sharqia Governorate have extracted a monumental statue of Ramesses II ...
Neferkhewe and his family in shrine 31 (all photos by John Ward and Maria Nilsson for the Gebel el Silsila Project and used with permission) A team of archaeologists in Egypt has discovered six rock ...
LUXOR – Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest in the government’s archaeological events that aim at drawing more ...
Egypt has uncovered the 2,000-year-old remnants of Canopus, a sunken city off the coast of Alexandria, including buildings, an ancient dock, and monumental statues. Prior to the establishment of ...
Experts debate whether this bust depicts Cleopatra. Courtesy of Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists searching for Cleopatra’s tomb have discovered a trove of coins, artifacts ...
This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. Here’s the most common question from visitors to Brooklyn Museum's Egyptian art galleries: Why are the statues’ noses broken ...