Ancient Egyptians were not only masters of architecture – they also were the original wizards of synthetic chemistry. Around ...

Ghana’s celebratory approach to death has birthed a deeply creative approach to coffin-making. Tamara Davison admires the ...

The Bronze Age Xiaohe culture (ca. 1950–1400 BCE) is renowned for its distinctive funerary practices and exceptional organic ...

The Penn Museum has been involved in archaeological research in Egypt for more than a century. Most of the material in the ...

The V&A’s flagship museum in London’s affluent South Kensington district, founded in the 1850s, is one of Britain’s biggest ...

Local Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed the never-before-seen tombs of Egyptian officials, the Egyptian Ministry of ...

Palestinians held a tearful funeral in Khan Younis on Sunday (June 8) as they mourned a father-of-five, whose relatives say ...

The treasures of the Pharaohs will be arriving in Rome this autumn for a landmark exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale.

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The Trump administration says it is offsetting a liberal bias in the media and boosting transparency for the American public, contrasting his free-wheeling question-and-answer sessions in the Oval ...

After years of delays, the Grand Egyptian Museum is officially opening next month. Here are seven highlights among its many ...

A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian ...