A new exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam brings together a large collection of funeral paintings from post-Ptolemaic Egypt, some loaned from the Louvre and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Ancient Egyptian funerary paintings have long been admired for their formal and structured nature, but a recent study conducted by an international team of scientists revealed new insights into the ...

Tracing the evolution of royal funerary practices during the 18th Dynasty, one of ancient Egypt’s greatest and most dynamic ...

Egyptian excerpts and manuscripts uncover the ancient traditions about how the people mused about life and prepared for the afterlife. (Getty Museum) On Nov. 1, the Getty Villa Museum opened its new ...

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When it was made: Between 3500 and 3100 B.C. Related: Sun Chariot: An ornate Bronze Age treasure that may have featured in an ancient Nordic religious ceremony What it tells us about the past: More ...