The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will return to Robert Owen Lehman twenty- seven Benin artefacts while keeping five of the ...

In ancient Egypt, the goddess Hathor was not only known for her powers over love and fertility, but also for her close ...

This is the face of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti, stunningly reconstructed by modern science from a badly-damaged mummy. It answers one of the most beguiling mysteries of the ages - were her looks ...

Thirty-four years after the late Queen Elizabeth II opened the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing, her son, King Charles III has returned to reopen it, with Queen Camilla, following extensive ...

Camilla placed the final flower at a new display of nearly 30,000 ceramic poppies at Tower of LondonCredit: Goff The installation, called The Tower Remembers, represents a “wound” across the ...

Where are the women in the UK’s public art installations? Let’s take a look at the politics of sculptural commissions plus a top ten of statues featuring women in the city of London. A set of ...

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Said’s words continue to ring true today, where a Western person’s imagination of an Egyptian immediately conjures up a pharaoh, or perhaps a vague sense of chaos. The image of an Egyptian woman, more ...

I just don’t think, at this age, I’m meant to live an uncomfortable life—that includes a cramped sink with cheap fixtures.