The engravings and drawings are divided into several groups, researchers learned in their initial study of the space, the ...

Nadine Abdel Ghaffar, founder and director of Art d’Egypte, had good intentions when she launched an itinerant art exhibition of public art commissions in downtown Cairo in 2017. Calling the show “a ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 10,000-year-old site with rock art in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, the country's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said Thursday.

An ancient Egyptian rock engraving may have been carved at the dawn of the first dynasty, up to 5,100 years ago, a new study suggests. The engraving depicts a boat that may have a royal figure seated ...

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One of the most important artifacts from the early history of Egypt, a remarkable, 2-foot tall limestone statue of a king who reunified the country nearly 5,000 years ago, will be on exhibition at the ...

On the plateau overlooking the ancient Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, a major outdoor art exhibition brings together the work of 14 international contemporary artists who have created site-specific ...

PARIS — France’s culture minister agreed today to return five painted wall fragments to Egypt after a row over their ownership prompted the Egyptians to cut ties with the Louvre Museum. A committee of ...

Nadine Abdel Ghaffar is passionate about fusing fashion, art, Egyptian culture- and presenting it to Egyptians and the world. Egypt’s seven-thousand-year history brings the northeastern African nation ...

Hamed Nada’s “Folkways” (nd) in When Arts Become Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–65) exhibition (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The calls to revise the canon of art history have ...

Cairo — As I write this story, I am in my room overlooking the main square of Cairo, ironically called Tahrir Square, which means Liberty in Arabic. The square is buzzing with what news agencies ...