The people who clustered along the Nile River in ancient times didn’t call their land Egypt. They called it Kemet — literally, “the black land,” so named for the fertile soil suffused by nutrients ...

An exhibition of 3,000-year-old artefacts at Battersea power station gives Egypt’s most ambitious, self-aggrandising pharaoh a chance to emerge from Tutankhamun’s shadow ...

A white correction fluid, identified on a 3,300-year-old papyrus, was used to make the figure of a jackal slimmer, researchers have found ...

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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 ...

This piece has intrigued me from the beginning. It was recorded as coming from the village of Deir el-Medina on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, southern Egypt, whereas its style tells me it comes ...

An artwork depicting the seasons of the ancient Egyptian calendar has gone missing from the famed Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. A British mission working in the tomb discovered that the piece had ...

Pedestrians, donkeys and cars swerved past our table in the narrow cobblestone street of Muiz li Dan Allah. Amir El-lithy's passionate discourse about contemporary art was interrupted by a wedding ...