The oldest known medical prosthetics (two artificial toes) date back to ancient Egypt, where they were ... Elsewhere, prosthetics came to play a key role in the art form of drag, where performers ...

These strips of linen were used to wrap the body of the deceased in ancient Egyptian times, preserving the body for the afterlife. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...

Already it was a zero-sum game: a woman's authority ... Cleopatra's image on Egyptian coins is likely her most authentic portrait. Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource, NY The Egyptian ...

Passover, the traditional spring holiday, beckons with its spread of cultural and leisure time events up and down the country ...

While London boasts some of the most famous museums and art galleries in the world, the rest of the UK is blessed with so many other hubs of history, such as hyperlocal exhibitions, specialised ...

Anyone straddling Jewish tradition and pop culture can’t help but notice the striking parallels between Liv-Action Role ...

Doctors use it to show the ventricles of the heart; artists create hallucinogenic visualizations; game designers ... peering excitedly at Egyptian camels, Central American women pounding tortilla ...

The pyramids of ancient Egypt and Sudan may not have ... Julia Budka, a professor of Egyptian archaeology and art history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, praised the study, telling ...

Known as King Tut, Tutankhamun famously reversed his father’s worship of Aten the sun god and brought Egypt back to its polytheistic roots. The ancient ... Egyptian royal woman is thought ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...