Writing hieroglyphs in everyday life was too complicated, so the ancient Egyptians also developed a cursive script, initially one called Hieratic, then from the 7th century B.C. onward ...

As someone who has just started as university historian, I think what’s most impressive about the monument is its hieratic scale. That’s not a common term, so let me quickly explain.

The restoration efforts also uncovered dipinti, or graffiti written in ink, in Demotic script (the cursive script derived from ancient Egyptian hieratic). The graffiti is the personal inscriptions ...

"Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is more than just a pre-history of the Italian ...

Recently, the museum at Savannah College of Art and Design unveiled the dynamic lineup of exhibitions in its fall program.

What, do you suppose, is the closest living relative of the hippopotamus? The rhinoceros, perhaps? The pig? In fact, it’s the ...

There’s little of the hieratic proselytising of his new-atheist period (The God Delusion, 2006): here, he makes only a few casual swipes at the silliness of creationists. Nor does he display his ...