The artists and sculptors of ancient Egypt may not be household names like Michelangelo, Raphael, or Caravaggio, but a new study of a female pharaoh’s temple suggests they had a lot in common with their Renaissance brethren. Instead of being solo artisans, sculptors worked in teams, with talented masters overseeing large crews of rookie chiselers and other assistants. Archaeologists say the study’s approach of scrutinizing the sculptors’ thousands of strokes is novel in Egyptology, which has long focused on interpreting written records. It reveals both the resources—and passion—ancient Egyptians poured into their art.Female pharaoh’s temple reveals how Egypt’s ‘ancient masters’ carved their art | Andrew Curry | November 16, 2021
Polish researchers at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor in the south of the country, came across the extraordinary find while working on the reconstruction of the 3,500-year-old Chapel of the Goddess Hathor.Ancient ‘garbage dump’ reveals hundreds of artefacts dating back thousands of years | Szymon Zdziebłowski | November 26, 2021
How do the archaeologists know that Tutankhamun had a mortuary temple? The Egyptians seem to have forgotten their boy-king by the end of the XVIII dynasty, after all. That’s one reason why his tomb was lost until the twentieth century A.D. That, and the fact that when the tomb of another pharaoh, Ramses VI, was built nearby, the rubble dug out of that tomb was dumped on top of Tut’s.