The watercolor "The Temple of Edfu: The Door of the Pylon," was painted by John Frederick Lewis, the first English artist to spend an extended period of time in Egypt, living in Cairo from 1841 to ...

Hidden behind pyramid-like mounds of construction dirt and tucked deep inside the innermost chamber of the North Carolina Museum of Art lies a little piece of ancient history. Temples and Tombs: ...

The most recent excavation, 10 miles south of Cairo, builds off work at a so-called sun temple that began in 2021.

Archaeologists in Egypt have finally exposed the full layout of a long-suspected “sun temple” complex, turning a century-old ...

For decades, researchers knew there were inscriptions all over the Temple of Esna in Egypt. Millennia of muck coated the walls, but one could make out that something was there, even though it was ...

Every spring, New Yorkers are treated to a new fascinating work of art atop the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This year, the commission for Met roof garden installation went to American ...

Singer and composer H. Sinno is bringing a site-specific opera to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Temple of Dendur. (Derrick Kakembo | The Metropolitan Museum of Art) For nearly 50 years, the Temple ...

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

For nearly 20 years, archaeologists have been searching the area around the temple Tapuziris Magna for the final resting place of the Egyptian queen and her husband Mark Antony. An alabaster statue of ...

Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest ...

Julia Thrift reviews the current exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum, which charts the abiding fascination British ...