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Archaeologists Uncovered An Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagus With A Painting That Looks Eerily Like Marge Simpson
But even The Simpsons couldn’t have predicted that researchers would stumble upon an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus lid with a painting that looks almost exactly like the Marge Simpson ...
Smith College8y
Potter's Wheel, Egypt, 2400 BCE
The first evidence of the potter's wheel was found in Egyptian paintings. Pottery in Egypt was a skilled craft in the Early Bronze Age. Potters were revered members of society. Perhaps the most ...
It's Nice That6d
Massoud Hayoun’s political paintings are seeped in symbolism and shades of blue
The painter’s surreal portraits merge past and present figures – the familiar and fantasy – to connect stories of “exile, ...
The Art Newspaper29d
The Grand Egyptian Museum is due to finally open on 3 July, here’s a sneak peek
It feels fitting that the mystery surrounding the official opening date of Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum seems to mirror the enduring enigma of how its magnificent neighbours, the ancient ...
Hebdo Ahram5d
Painting the silence of death: Egyptian surrealist Mohamed Riyad Saeed
The Al-Mashhad Art Gallery invites us to rediscover the world of this great Egyptian neo-realist. Mohamed Riyad Saeed (1937-2008), an icon of Egyptian surrealism from the second half of the 20th ...