How this artist created 1 stunning work of art, from 200 years of discoveries

Kadir Nelson, BFA Communications Design ’96, illustrated the November 2021 cover of National Geographic. It depicts two centuries of excavations from six continents: “I’m very much interested in the human story and the journey of the hero. And much of what we see in ancient Egypt, through temples and the architecture and the story on the walls, is very much about the journey of the hero.”