Redwood Curtain welcomes Freshwater School’s Egyptian Mask Project to the theater gallery for the months of February and March. Freshwater teacher Kylah Rush immerses her sixth-grade class in an ...

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Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis – not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass ...

The accompanying picture shows a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mask for a mummy. It was intended to be sewn to a shroud and was made of baked faience ceramic beads at the beginning of Dynasty XXXI. That was ...

Washington Middle School sixth graders in Lisa Peterson, Cathy Pitts, Shane Knapp, Joel Sopak and Jennifer Lachajczyk’s classes not only learned about ancient civilizations, but also used their ...

(CN) – An ancient Egyptian mummy mask will remain in the St. Louis Art Museum because the U.S. government cannot prove the mask was stolen from Egypt when it went missing 40 years ago, the 8th Circuit ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a series of tombs dating from about 1,800 to 4,800 years ago, some of which contain colorful mummy masks and even the childlike statue of the god of silence, ...

ST. LOUIS (CN) - The St. Louis Art Museum can keep the 3,200-year-old Egyptian mummy mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer, despite the U.S. government's "bold assertion" that it was stolen from Egypt, a federal ...

Museum Director Brent Benjamin said this morning the museum won't meet a May 15 deadline set by Egyptian antiquities authorities to return the mask. The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt claims ...

A silver face mask gilded with gold, a mummification workshop, mummies and sarcophagi have all been discovered at a tomb complex in Saqqara, Egypt, an Egyptian-German team announced this morning (July ...

Archaeologists have been unearthing ancient Egyptian treasures for decades, but there are still wonders to be found. It was recently announced that a team of Russian researchers working roughly 50 ...

There was no masking the fun these kids were having at Fairfield Museum and History Center in one of the programs offered Wednesday by the museum for the week-long February school vacation. The "Mad ...