The 3,000-year-old sarcophagus of an Egyptian princess is one of the standout objects at this year’s Frieze Masters. It is “the only royal Egyptian sarcophagus to ever be offered for sale on ...

Hatshepsut's successor tried to demolish all traces of her, but her temple stood the test of ... She was one of the few women in Egyptian history to retain power for so long.

Known as decans, each one was associated with an Egyptian god ... and decorations typical of the upper end of a temple—such as a cobra frieze—indicate that there could be a door behind ...

An Ancient Egyptian bas-relief block from the Great Hall of Nakhthoreb, Great Temple of Bast, Tell Basta (Bubastis), Lower Egypt. This block and some other fragments are all that have survived ...

In the Egyptian city ... meet to enter the temple precinct on these days. “They had to be clean and to abstain from intercourse for eight days before,” Leitz says. “Women and foreigners ...

A small statue discovered under a temple wall at the site of an ancient Egyptian city may depict Cleopatra ... to the shoulders — was found near the female bust at the temple in Taposiris ...

It was not only men in ancient Egypt who were keen to serve the gods, as women also had their role to play in temple service, Saleh says. Women were given jobs of great status and could serve to ...