In ancient Athens, the agora was a public forum where citizens could gather to deliberate, disagree and decide together. It ...

Egypt’s most surprising destinations aren’t in Cairo—several cities across the country are blending modern growth with deep ...

Built during Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, the pyramids on the Giza Plateau has been drawing visitors for thousands of years. The earliest records of tourists dates back to the 5 th century BCE, when Greek ...

What do you know about Ancient Egypt, Pandas? I'll be honest – my personal knowledge pretty much begins and ends with the 1999 classic "The Mummy." And it's a shame, since the film is not historically ...

The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, ...

There’s something about castles that tugs at the imagination. Maybe it’s the hint of romance in their towers, or the way they ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

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Federal authorities have recovered more than a dozen ancient Egyptian artifacts illegally smuggled into the United States and destined for private collectors, including a funerary statue valued at ...

Installation view of "Divine Egypt," now open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through January 2026 Anna-Marie Kellen / Courtesy of the Met This fall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is taking ...

History has seen many waves of Egyptomania but, until the 19th century, scholars remained baffled by the many repeated symbols and motifs wrapped around every new find, from majestic monuments to ...