In 1798, during the French Revolutionary Wars, General Napoleon Bonaparte led a French expedition to Egypt. The plan was to conquer the wealthy province and deal a major blow to British interests in ...

In order to fund the museum's colossal €800 million renovation plan, director Laurence des Cars has no shortage of ideas: prestigious galas, American donors and higher ticket prices for foreign ...

The painting symposium will showcase the art of 26 world-renowned visual artists from different countries, including Egypt, England, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, and the United States.

He added that the French Emperor Napoleon III requested from Said Pasha, the wali of Egypt, to supply him with a brigade of Sudanese soldiers (Egypt and Sudan were at the time one country ruled by ...

Jacob Epstein was very upset. For months, the sculptor had toiled on a memorial tomb for Oscar Wilde, the celebrated—and ...

Keith Amery, a researcher and master in Egyptian archaeology, tells The Art Newspaper that “only a couple of small tombs for private individuals have been discovered in the Valley since ...

To the East India Company and the British Raj that followed it, mapping was an obsession. The empires that came before them, such as the Mughal and the Marathas, did not engage in cartography in ...