Experts on the hunt for the queen's tomb believe that they’ve found a small bust of her—but not everyone agrees ...

This marble statuette is emblematic of Ptolemaic-era art: a mishmash of styles with a decidedly Egyptian twist.

As it turned out, the visitor was not really a visitor at all. He was a Met curator, planning a big new exhibit with ancient ...

For centuries before Narmer, predynastic Egyptian cultures had been carving humans. We have examples of human sculpture in the Nile region from as far back as the Merimde culture, a Neolithic society ...

A 2,300-year-old marble statuette discovered in Alexandria, Egypt, has offered new insights into how dwarves were perceived during the Ptolemaic period (332–150 B.C.). Depicting a muscular, nude dwarf ...

The excavation yielded over 1,000 decorated blocks and fragments with detailed carvings and inscriptions, considered rare ...

Ancient Egyptian art and design includes painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, furniture, textiles and other material objects produced by the civilization living in the Nile Valley from roughly ...