An artisan works on an alabaster artwork at a workshop in Luxor, Egypt, on Jan. 10, 2025. Amidst the ancient temples and tombs in Egypt's Luxor, skilled artisans continue to transform alabaster ...

LUXOR, Egypt, Jan. 27 (Xinhua ... "This is not just a profession but an art form. With precision, I carve alabaster stone into beautiful statues, elegant vases, and other pieces," said Gamal ...

The venerable auction house is unloading one-of-a-kind gold necklaces, rings, trinkets and more from ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt that cost ... jewelry “wearable art.” Some, however, have ...

Despite attempts at ceasefires, people are being displaced amid the clashes and are fleeing to neighbouring countries like Chad, South Sudan and Egypt, in urgent need of basic relief items and shelter ...

THE GOLDMINE PAPYRUS. DATE: ca. 1151–1145 B.C. MATERIAL: Papyrus. Dimensions: 9 feet by 1.3 feet. FOUND: Deir el-Medina, Egypt. The world’s oldest known geological map is a nine-foot-long ...

You can see some faint figures in the painting. I was imagining people shouting from the windows, people sleeping in crowded rooms — perhaps nine to a room, people in the streets. Egyptian ...

Tracing the origins of Egypt's unique visual style, Alastair Sooke treks across the Sahara and travels the Nile to find the rarely seen art of its earliest peoples. Show more In a visual treat ...