When we visited King Tut’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, we were in the midst of a guided Abercrombie & Kent tour of Egypt ...

The so-called "gallant parties" created by Watteau and his contemporaries became a new genre of painting, showing a world beyond rigid social rules. King Frederick II was also enthusiastic about these ...

Until now, research on rock art and burials in north Africa focused on areas like the Nile Valley, the Sahara or the Atlas Mountains. Our discoveries reveal that Morocco’s north-western coast ...

The expert found the propaganda, which is supportive of Ramesses II, on the 3,300-year-old obelisk that sits in Paris' Place de la Concorde. Olette-Pelletier saw the obelisk up close in 2021 after ...

What really brings the past alive are the images—the structures, the art, the moments frozen in time that speak louder than any textbook ever could. Today, we’ve compiled a collection of ...

In 1977, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) declared May 18 as International Museum Day (IMD), based on the notion that museums have the potential to transform and to raise awareness that ...