an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own, creating a distinctive, visual style. Truncated and with steep sides, the pyramids left by the long ...

Alastair Sooke tells the story of ancient Egyptian art through 30 extraordinary masterpieces. Tracing the origins of Egypt's unique visual style, he treks across the Sahara and travels the Nile to ...

The statuette is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ... who may have held an ancient percussion instrument, is thus part of "the long Egyptian tradition in which dwarves ...