Mad World, the global sales arm of pan-Arab indie outfit Mad Solutions, has acquired international rights to Egyptian ...

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However, in a fitting yet depressing way, this all comes back to our soon-to-be (and massively childish) President. Donald Trump went on a Truth Social rant the other night, mocking Seth Meyers while ...

A new open access volume, Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt, authored by Alice Stevenson (UCL Institute of Archaeology), is now available. Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient ...

Mansour's arrest may ease Egyptian worries over HTS rise Egypt fears Syria's upheaval aids Islamist regrouping Egyptian media critical of Damascus power change, Brotherhood resurgence DAMASCUS ...

Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA), National Art Gallery, Islamabad, hosted a successful calligraphy workshop led by the renowned Pakistani calligrapher Azeem Iqbal. The workshop ...

The first, “peaceful,” Vapheio gold cup showing a man capturing a bull. Credit: Zde/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 The pair of stunning gold cups, called the “Vapheio Cups,” are considered ...

But as a performance, it is something that changes with time and space. Therefore, like music, it is an intangible heritage. Hindu temple art shows gods dancing – Shiva dancing, Krishna dancing, ...

Sexual allure was long an intrinsic aspect of Aphrodite, and erotic pleasures were referred to as ta Aphrodisia, "the business of Aphrodite." The goddess's body was not fully revealed in Greek art, ...