Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient Egyptian temple hidden in a cliff face. The temple dates to around 2,100 years ago ...

Discovering preserved paint in ancient Egyptian temples is rare, but finding gold leaf is even less common. The Egyptians began covering columns, gates and obelisks with gold at the beginning of ...

One of the most famous tombs in all of Egypt was holding a family secret: another body.

He was in fact, a sort of ancient Egyptian civil servant ... these frescoes are the only Greek wall paintings from the period to survive in their complete forms. The wall frescoes depict the ...

The earliest known synthetic pigment, Egyptian blue is found in some of the paint that still colors ancient statues, coffins, and tomb walls. Modern scientists were intrigued by this long-lasting ...

The Saqqara necropolis is home to numbers of noble tombs, in which many colored relief paintings depicting ancient Egyptian daily life are still well preserved. (Photo: Xinhua) This photo taken on ...