A rock shelter discovered in the southern Sinai Desert contains designs and inscriptions spanning a period of 10,000 years, ...

The restoration of the Temple of Edfu has revealed ancient Egyptian paintings dating back thousands of years. The Temple of Edfu is dedicated to the worship of the god Horus, according to the Ministry ...

For many thousands of years, people returned again and again to this remote desert outcrop, leaving their marks across its stone walls. It’s unclear why this site became so prolifically adorned in ...

"Egyptian craftspeople mastered reliable rotary drilling more than two millennia before some of the best-preserved drill sets." ...

On the plateau overlooking the ancient Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, a major outdoor art exhibition brings together the work of 14 international contemporary artists who have created site-specific ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Egyptian antiquities workers dig at the site of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kms. (15 miles) southwest of ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

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 ...

According to an Italian Egyptologist, one of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo's most prized ancient paintings could be a 19th-century archeological forgery. The “Meidum ...