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 ...

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 ...

Cats were honored with lavish adornments, depicted in art, and even mummified, reflecting their cherished status in Egyptian culture and the afterlife. In ancient Egypt, cats were not just pets ...

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 ...