Egypt’s Great Pyramids have been a source of wonder and ... Nevertheless, whilst the authors feel confident that “the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The story of Greeks in Alexandria goes back more than two millennia, when Alexander the Great established the city.

This vision came to life in our visit to Yucun village in Anji county. Nestled among mountains and rivers, the village is a living example of how China has integrated environmental stewardship with ...

Ancient Egyptians were not only masters of architecture – they also were the original wizards of synthetic chemistry. Around 5,000 years ago, they crafted the world’s first synthetic pigment ...

Instead, it was a reenactment of an ancient Egyptian battle organized by the 41 students in ARCH 1630: “Fighting Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Warfare.” The reenactment was staged as part of the students ...

Was Ancient Egypt’s Most Lasting Influence in the Field of Fashion? An exhibition in Cleveland showcases millennia-old designs and the more modern creations they inspired ...