“Treasures of Ancient Egypt ... Egyptian aesthetic for architecture and design, they’ve done so sparingly and largely in funerary and prison architecture. Richmond has a number of Egyptian ...

The reconstruction of ancient buildings is often a difficult ... of accessing how Romans and their rulers may have felt about architecture generally. Elkins reveals how coinage could be used ...

Perhaps the reason we view ancient architecture as more beautiful is because of survivorship bias. It’s not that drab or boring buildings didn’t exist in ancient times, it’s just that only the most ...

Journey back to ancient Egypt (OK ... through March 11 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. (200 North Blvd., Richmond, Va.) The exhibit explores the life and death of a temple priest, Nesperennub ...