The museum houses an encyclopedic collection of over 66,500 objects representing over 6,000 years of history— from Pre-dynastic Egyptian ceramics to works such as Simone Leigh's Las Meninas (2019).

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Hawaii, Easter Island and other exotic places. With special ...

Evidence of textile workshops demonstrates that girls’ labour was valued enough to be documented in administrative records ...

He stressed that her death represents "a huge loss to Egyptian and Arab art," citing her significant artistic and humanitarian value and a distinguished career that left behind an enduring legacy.

The researchers shared their surprising findings in a new study that highlights the importance of using science to examine art and antiquity.

Mahmoud Mokhtar is regarded as one of the pioneers of modern Egyptian art; most Egyptians know him as “the Egyptian renaissance sculptor" due to his famous statue in El-Nahda square in Giza ...

In December 2017, the ministry launched a comprehensive rescue project to restore Tanis and to develop the site into an open-air museum of Ancient Egyptian art. Follow us on: Facebook ...

More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long it would stick around. The Tarkhan Dress, carbon-dated to 3482 to 3102 B.C., ...

Egyptian entrepreneur and belly dancer Nada El Masriya. Photo by Dave Abreu. Nada El Masriya grew up in Cairo where music and dance played a big part in her everyday life. A vital part of Egyptian ...