Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine, will open on Thursday at the V&A Dundee.

Still, given the hand-wringing and self-righteous mudslinging that have accompanied recent Gauguin exhibitions, the time is ripe to ask what we actually know, and how that knowledge should impinge on ...

His efforts were soon rewarded. On February 12, 1898, Loret and his team discovered the tomb of Thutmose III, one of Egypt’s greatest military kings, who conquered territory as far north as ...

Shattered depictions of Hatshepsut have long thought to be products of her successor’s violent hatred towards her, but a new ...

Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...

Evidence of textile workshops demonstrates that girls’ labour was valued enough to be documented in administrative records ...

CAIRO, Egypt (WOMENSENEWS) — Grassroots organizations have been flowering in Egypt’s first post-revolutionary year and at least one is coming back to life. The Egyptian Feminist Union, first founded ...

According to the report, Egypt now has some 20,475 million salaried employees (17,520 million men and 2,955 million women), representing 73.6 per cent of the total and up from 72.4 per cent in the ...

Egypt's Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb issued a decision on Monday assigning Nahla El-Saidi, the Dean of the Al-Azhar College of Islamic Sciences for International Students, as his ...

Fresh research has suggested that the gender of the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut was not the reason she seemingly vanished ...

Scientists believe they've worked out why statues of one of Egypt's most overlooked rulers were destroyed - and even ...

Masked performers wearing pair of male and female Chi wara headdresses, Bougouni village, Mali CC0 Usage Conditions Apply Click for more information. Click to view download files. Click to ... objects ...