“And the adaption of portable (X-ray) instruments as mobile devices designed for use in the field is a very exciting advancement in the study of ancient Egyptian wall paintings.” ...

Restorers working at the Monastery of St. Bishoy in the Wadi El-Natroun area have uncovered a number of medieval-era wall-paintings and ... According to historical books and religious documents ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 4,300-year-old tomb with remarkable wall paintings illustrating ... and goods being sold at a market, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

Paintings of ancient ... site Courtesy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiques A papyrus scroll containing the text of Chapter 17 of the Egyptian Book of the Dead Courtesy of the Egyptian ...

Scientists have used a new imaging technique to re-examine Egyptian art and find details ... in helping us to examine and record ancient wall paintings," Dr Evans told IFLScience.

In 1986, the band "The Bangles" sang about "all the old paintings on the tombs" where the figures they depict are "walking like an Egyptian ... to Baines. In wall art, royalty and tomb owners ...

Relatively few first-rate works of art have survived from antiquity. Since the 1820s, however, the British Museum has boasted 11 large painted fragments that are 3,500 years old: the celebrated ...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy presented one of the slabs, or steles, to his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak ... committed to fighting the illegal trafficking of works of art," he said in a ...