Egyptian and German experts have successfully restored the lost colors and glimmering metals that once enlivened ancient Egypt’s second largest, and perhaps best preserved, temple. Since 2021, Egypt’s ...

One of the colorful paintings uncovered in the temple of Edfu. Martin Stadler / Universität Würzburg The ongoing restoration of one of the largest temples in Egypt has revealed colorful paintings, ...

The temple of Edfu is over 2,000 years old and centuries of dirt had built up on its walls. All the grime covered vibrant colors that add a new layer of meaning to the inscriptions. Restoring the ...

When it comes to ancient Egypt, the color most associated with its monuments today would likely be a sandy beige. Egyptologists, however, have long known that many of its buildings were actually ...

For the second year in a row the world-famous Niagara Falls has lit up in the colors of the Egyptian flag on the occasion of Egypt’s National Day, the July 23 Revolution. The event comes as part of an ...

Colors mean different things to different people across time and space, but the color red has remained an integral way of representing hate, love and luxury for millennia. In a new book on the history ...

Egyptian archaeologists completing their 10th season of excavations at Gerza, 75 miles southwest of modern day Cairo, have announced the excavation of two full mummy portraits and further fragmentary ...

Researchers also uncovered a funerary building, records written on papyrus, pottery, and coffins. The finds date from the Ptolemaic period (305–30 B.C.) through to the Roman era (30 B.C.—390 A.D.).