The Penn Museum has been involved in archaeological research in Egypt for more than a century. Most of the material in the ...

Egypt was already ancient when Alexander conquered it from the Persians in 332 before the common era. He made his way down from Gaza, and was crowned at the Temple of Ptah at Memphis and then was ...

Art Institute director on leave after bizarre incident on overseas flight 01:37. Leadership at the Art Institute of Chicago was scrambling Friday, after their director was accused of being ...

US President Donald Trump’s recently announced tariff regime has brought confusion and turmoil to the international art and antiques trade, with dealers around the world scrambling to find out ...

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Archaeologists excavating the Karnak temple complex in Luxor, Egypt, were in for a dazzling surprise when they turned up a clutch of gold jewelry and ornaments. The mission was undertaken by the ...

One art forger famously duped the auction house Christie’s and an art museum in Manchester, ... it has for centuries. On eBay today, one can buy a supposed faience ushabti from 2,500 years ago, a ...

It is also the largest exhibition of Egyptian art to be presented in the southern hemisphere. So, yes, ... weighing over 1.5 tonnes. It is from a colossal statue of Ramses II (c.1279-1213 BCE) from ...

With its melding of fine art and pop, valuable paintings and Egyptophile tchotchkes, “Flight Into Egypt” firmly presents itself as an exhibition of cultural history, not archaeological study.

Ptah was the “master builder”, the inventor of masonry, and the patron of architects and craftsmen. According to some The Shabaka Stone is a granite slab from the 25th Egyptian Dynasty, housed in the ...

The ideal is to copy the sculptures that were originally made by [the god] Ptah, who invented the sculpture," Bleiberg explains. For example, the classic depiction of the seated king can be found ...