Adorned with mother of pearl, coral and lapis lazuli, the case’s design hearkened back to the ... of contemporary clothing inspired by ancient Egypt is “like [looking into] a kaleidoscope ...

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 ...

Many fine examples of wooden and clay mechanical string toys have been found in the tombs of Ancient Egypt. The original of this particular wooden crocodile is believed to be from 1100 BCE and is on ...

Travel back in time thousands of year to the banks of the Nile, where you can learn all about the amazing people and places of Ancient Egypt. What remains of Ancient Egypt? How do we know so much ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

What did the ancient Egyptians believe? Key Vocabulary Quiz: Ancient Egypt Play: History Explorer Oh! I’ve lost my pen. Ancient Egyptian: You’re clearly not Egyptian, are you? Child ...

A small chapel tomb (ca 13th century B.C.) at the necropolis of the ancient city of Deir el Medina, near Luxor in Egypt. The pyramids of Meroë adopted a strikingly similar design. Photograph by ...

What we know of this early society changes and is re-intepreted year by year as new archaeological finds discovered beneath the desert sands revise our understanding of ancient Egypt. This web ...

The earliest archaeological evidence of the use of cosmetics can be traced back to the urban civilizations of the ancient world. In southern Iraq and in Egypt, men and women alike painted kohl around ...

The tomb was the last of the lost royal tombs from ancient Egypt’s famed Eighteenth Dynasty ... said in a statement that the tomb’s simple architectural design served as a “prototype ...