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The Manchester Museum is running a public consultation about the future of Asru, a woman who lived in Thebes, southern Egypt ...
The Manchester Museum in northern England is asking visitors whether it should withdraw an ancient Egyptian mummy from its ...
In Thebes, the great temple to Amen-Re gained a new entrance with four colossi of the pharaoh, to remind people who was in charge. ... Yet Egyptian art did evolve over the years.
What care I that some millions of wretched Israelites died tinder Pharaoh's lash or Egypt's sun? It was well that they died that I might have the pyramids to look on, or to fill a musing ...
For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor ...
Unknown artist, “Mesu Smelling a Lotus” (c. 1525–1504 BCE), New Kingdom, Thebes, Egypt (image via Metropolitan Museum of Art) ...
Archaeologists in Egypt have found the tomb of King Thutmose II — the first discovery of an ancient royal tomb since King Tutankhamun's in 1922. Latest U.S.
Marie Vandenbeusch, a British Museum expert on Ancient Egyptian funerary culture and the curator of the NGV’s upcoming Pharaoh exhibition, says this idealised imagery is all we have to go on.