Introduction History is not simply the story of what happened mdash;it is the memory of how power was used, values encoded, ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

Digitalization is an inevitable part of everyday life and is increasingly entering every aspect of human life. The development of new technologies and especially their application in the creation of ...

Deco – characterised by clean lines, bold geometric shapes and jazzy colours – was seen as thrustingly modern. And it had a ...

She creates a picture of modern architecture as a legacy built up around the figure of the patient behind a screen: fragile, exposed, obscured as they are revealed. Main image: Ludwig Mies van der ...

"I know someone who has been to 85 countries. I asked him which country he'd like to visit again. He didn't even think for a ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA sequencing reveals how these two populations also intermingled.

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Beginning in the late 1930s, Nelson Rockefeller tried to interest the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, which he had begun to collect after a 1933 vacation to ...

Egyptian architecture as cultural expression by Smith, E. Baldwin (Earl Baldwin), 1888-1956 Publication date 1938 Topics Architecture -- Egypt Publisher New York ; London : D. Appleton-Century company ...