Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colours, and now a Danish study has revealed that some were also perfumed.

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...

This mask would have been worn by a priest during funeral rituals.Mask in the form of the jackal head Anubis, ancient Egyptian god of embalming and the dead. It is made of cartonnage, layers of ...

you won’t find an “Impressionism” wing or “ancient Greek sculptures” hall. Walking into the first of 23 galleries, visitors encounter a statuette of an Egyptian god nursing her son next ...

Babi watched over his troupe of baboons, Ihy, would charm with his beautiful tunes, Thoth was the scribe god of reading and ... The ancient Egyptian gods. Thoth was often shown with the head ...

A large number of Egyptian artists are participating in ... most of the works present life-sized and smaller versions of the animal's sculptures while some artists display their paintings with ...