There is no train in “Monaco • Monte-Carlo.” The railway ad instead pictures a woman, poised at the shore’s edge. Encircled in rings of carmine- and blush-tinged blossoms, she looks up ...

This show covers the years between about 3900 B.C. and 2649 B.C., the period before Egypt became Egypt, and opens a mystical window on how the forms, ideas and images of Egyptian art came into being.

The curator of the Brooklyn Museum, which has more than 1,200 items in its collection of Egyptian art, told Holly Keris ... is the purposeful destruction of images for religious or political ...

While few ancient Egyptian temples had zodiacs depicted on them, a well-known example is a temple at Dendera, which has the zodiac along with images of five of the planets, Leitz told Live Science.