Toby Wilkinson's new book The Last Dynasty - Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra is a definitive and ...

New sites and artifacts are found all the time, revealing forgotten secrets of the past. Archaeologists excavated a ...

A 12-year-old girl discovered a 3,500-year-old Egyptian scarab amulet near Hod Hasharon, Israel, which is now on display in ...

Every once in a while, a revolutionary invention comes along with the power to advance humanity and change the course of ...

In 1897 most of Benin City, then the capital of an extensive kingdom, was razed by the British. Their trove of looted plaques ...

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After looking online, the family realized the importance of the object and contacted the Israel Antiquities Authority.

In ancient Egyptian lore, the god Bes was responsible for fertility and had a penchant for mischief. “He’s a beer drinker and ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys 150 years of Black artists turning to ancient Egypt.

The cultural shift in institutions continues as “ Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now ” headlines at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This new exhibit, which opened Nov. 17 at ...

Pawel Gusnar, a saxophonist and professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, Poland, enjoyed an immersive ...

The main entrance to the suspected temple is thought to lie behind the monumental gateway, according to researchers.