The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, ...

William King Museum of Art to debut new exhibits ...

A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other ...

"THAT'S MY WORD: A NIGHT OF POETRY AND MONOLOGUES": 7 p.m., 225 Theatre Collective, 7338 Highland Road. Hosted by J. Broux and featuring Kristen Sheree. $10. 225theatrecollective.com.

Gustav Klimt attended discussions of scientific developments, like the microscope, which he incorporated into his work ...

King Abdullah II of Jordan and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi are forming a united front to oppose the White House’s ...

Ashraf Omar Eldarir, 52, admitted to smuggling nearly 600 Egyptian artifacts into the United States, many of them so freshly ...

A bottle of Egyptian blue hand mixed by George Washington Carver (c. 1864-1943) was loaned by the Iowa State archives.

The artifacts, which included amulets and a sculpture, smelled like earth when they spilled out of his suitcases, according ...

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

An area of low pressure over the main island of Hokkaido in northern Japan caused record amounts of snow to fall in the region. There were considerable traffic disruptions and dozens of flight ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum spans an astonishing 500,000 square meters, twice the size of the Louvre Museum in Paris.