Scholars didn’t register the Hittites’ existence until 3,000 years later, when carvings at ancient Egyptian temples ... the holy priests, the priestesses, the anointed ones, the musicians ...

Take one Pompeiian example, set up by the freedman Publius Vesonius Phileros, which opens with ineffable politeness: ...

The greatest civilisations of humanity – today increasingly merged into the amorphous world of the globalised consumer ...

When Europeans started uncovering the wonders of ancient Egypt, it was so long that the camera had yet ... Its inscriptions were incredibly rare and reveal that the tomb belonged to a priestess alive ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of a "major" 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom that was ...

The Eye of Horus is frequently found in ancient Egyptian burials, particularly on wedjat amulets.

During an excavation at a site believed to date back to the Greek-era near Alexandria, archaeologists uncovered a stunning ...

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 family have a strong link to this 'large ...

In an exhibition on ancient Egyptian-inspired fashion at the Cleveland Museum of Art, a relief depicts the wife of Amenhotep wearing a kalasiris, or long linen dress, juxtaposed with a white ...

Phryne was a notable ancient Greek hetaira, or courtesan, of Athens, who is remembered throughout the millennia for her ...

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.