The Goddesses of Philae Temple: Egyptian Art as a ‘Magical Machine’.

Author: Sian Phillips

July 22, 2026

Egypt. Say the name and a host of iconic images are brought forth in your mind’s eye: The Great Pyramids, The Sphinx, King Tutankhamun’s funeral mask, walls filled with hieroglyphs, to name but a few. All of these could be seen as expressions of Egyptian art and architecture, but really, they seem to go far beyond our modern conception of such things. For the Egyptians, art was always at the [...]