Long-haired and fluffy or sleek and svelte, these silvery gray cat breeds will brighten anyone's day The gray cat breeds you ...

The latest work—led by the Archaeological Preservation and Registration sector of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Archaeology, the ...

In a preprint paper, scientists concluded that the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt—believed to be the oldest of the ...

In Greek mythology, Daedalus was commissioned by King Minos to build the labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur, a terrible beast ...

What kind of art can you expect to find within the majestic walls of the Louvre? and when is the best time to embark on this ...

Art Deco may be hard to define, but you know it when you see it. Its architecture is at once angular—associated with shapes ...

Larger-than-life scenes carved on each of its exterior walls offered ancient ... of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA), began to restore the designs’ vibrant colors to ...

They discovered a piece of history lodged in a lump of clay: a small ornamental dagger decorated with stars, crescent moons and geometric patterns ... “A true work of art,” Kurka tells ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos, dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic period in ...

Le Louxor is an art deco cinema with decorations referencing ancient ... to showcase Egyptian influences, with the crown of the skyscraper decorated in radiating sunburst patterns and lotus ...

Credit: Vania Teofilo / CC BY-SA 3.0 A mysterious Egyptian ... precise geometric pattern that resembles the shapes of Egypt’s pyramids—an artistic style not seen in any other known mummification.

Most people visit South Africa’s Kruger National Park for wildlife safaris. I go to its northern Parfuri region to study an archaeological site called Thulamela, a precolonial kingdom between ...