Across ancient civilizations, weird rules shaped the intimate details of daily life, like what people could eat and wear, or even how they were punished for such indiscretions. Some laws aimed to ...

Art history has all but forgotten the love that sculptor Auguste Rodin had for the art of Egypt. A new exhbition in New York ...

Scientists have found traces of ancient opiates in the residue lining an Egyptian alabaster vase, indicating that opiate use was woven into the fabric of the culture. And the Egyptians didn’t just ...

A British auction house is facing criticism for selling 18 ancient Egyptian human skulls. The skulls come from the collections of Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, a 19th-century British general.

Scientists have discovered a long-buried branch of the Nile river that once flowed alongside more than 30 pyramids in Egypt, potentially solving the mystery of how ancient Egyptians transported the ...