This beautifully carved wooden statue is actually a container for cosmetics. The pot the servant girl holds at her side would once have held make-up used by a member of the Ancient Egyptian elite.

Proof for a book cover for, "Egyptian Servant Statues," by James H. Breasted Jr. Against a light blue ground, a photograph of a long-limbed figural statue against a periwinkle rectangle, superimposed ...

In the 1920s, archaeologists excavating the necropolis of Deir el-Bahri near Luxor, Egypt, found many broken statues of the ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut—one of the civilization’s few ...

A massive statue recently unearthed in Cairo and thought to depict one of the country's most famous pharaohs may be of another ancient Egyptian ruler, the country's antiquities minister said Thursday.

An Egyptian statue resembling the pharaoh Tutankhamun has been sold for £4.7 million ($5.97 million) at a London auction, despite protests from Cairo that the relic may have been stolen.. The 11 ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An ancient Egyptian statue appears to have started moving on its own, much to the amazement ...

The Egyptian statue of a woman named Hel dates from around 1,300 B.C.E. and is dedicated to the gods of the city of Memphis.

About 3,300 years ago, in the early 13th century B.C., an Egyptian statue was made. It was carved from granite and contained traces of red. It was from ancient Thebes in Egypt. The statue is ...

The upper part of a statue depicting King Ramesses II (left) was recently found at an archaeological site in Upper Egypt. At right is a 1926 illustration of the pharaoh.