Also characteristic, says Alex Bass are ‘florals, Egyptian-inspired motifs and other geometric ... wallpapers, and decorative elements featuring Art Deco motifs.’ It can also be part of interiors with ...

Examination of a mummy has revealed the original ancient Egyptian embalming recipe - first used to preserve bodies. A battery of forensic chemical tests carried out on a mummy that dated from ...

7 Top International Art ... deco office buildings and residential structures with Indian embellishments. This architectural style, called "Deco Saracenic," blends symbols of Indian gods and ...

The term ‘Arts Decoratifs’ (later shortened to Art Deco in the 1960s) was coined after the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriel Modernes (International Exhibition of Modern and ...

Other entrepreneurs were more creative in how they embraced Egyptian themes; the stage magician Carter The Great incorporated images and story elements inspired by Tut’s discovery into his act.

In early 2020, a select number of people were given a sneak peak inside the Grand Egyptian Museum, home to the world’s largest collection of Egyptian artifacts. It wasn’t the first time that ...

In the 1930s, Art Deco and Egyptian themes were all the rage ... a unitized body structure (aka unibody), where all the major elements of the vehicle were welded together into one rigid structure.

The largest collection of art deco architecture in the United States is concentrated in a walkable section of Miami Beach. The Art Deco Historic District includes more than 800 buildings in the ...

The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD. It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation. Since Greek was understood ...

I better write this down! Oh! I’ve lost my pen. Ancient Egyptian: You’re clearly not Egyptian, are you? Child: No, I’m from Britain. Ancient Egyptian: Haha! No wonder you don’t have a pen.

By Jillian Steinhauer Tamara de Lempicka’s first major U.S. survey invokes her as a trailblazing techno-feminist who borrowed freely from art history. But it also buries her erratic second act.