On a bright late-winter morning recently, Lawrence Berman was in his natural habitat, as far away from daylight as he could get. The senior curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art ...

“Treasures of Ancient Egypt: Sunken Cities” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts delivers a sublime and mind-bending experience. It’s a validation of why the West has long been captivated by the ...

The social horizon of Egyptian aesthetics -- Art institutions, agrarian conflict and fascism from 1908-40 -- Art in Egyptian civil society, 1938-51 -- The festival and the state : the contemporary art ...

Regarded as one of the longest and most passionate poems ever written, the Great Hymn to the Aten is an ancient Egyptian poem that praises Aten, the ancient Egyptian deity of the Sun, as the ...