Knewz on MSN4d
3300-Year-Old Palace Wall Painting Depicts Naturalistic Expression of Birds, Details Help Identify the Species
Old Palace Wall Painting Depicts Naturalistic Expression of Birds, Details Help Identify the Species The detailed painting on ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3d
A Five-Pound Hunk of the World’s Oldest Known Synthesized Pigment Was Found in Nero’s Palace
The discovery might illuminate the link between the blue pigment's ancient Egyptian roots and its rediscovery by Renaissance ...
Egyptian Streets13d
The Story of Ancient Egyptian William the Hippo
Much like cats, crocodiles, and lions, the hippopotamus was a revered animal in ancient Egyptian culture, as it represents ...
Hyperallergic25d
Returning the Gaze of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Portraits
Painted on wooden panels and placed over the faces of mummified bodies in Fayum in Greco-Roman Egypt, the paintings were ... with and reimagined Ancient Egyptian art, history, and symbolism ...
The New York Times1mon
He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There.
How the dream of a lifetime became reality for a sculptor from Egypt. A new wooden sculpture on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has a fascinating back story.Credit...Graham Dickie/The ...