South Metope IV of the Parthenon is one of many sculptures from the Parthenon in Greece that have been scattered across the ...

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they stop being used?

The ancient Greek wall painting decorating the tomb of King Philip of Macedonia comes back to life after archaeologists restored it digitally ...

Home to some of the world’s most extraordinary artifacts, from the Rosetta Stone to the Elgin Marbles, the British Museum is ...

In Britain, archaeologists have found Iranian and Egyptian beads, Scandinavian amber items, Aegean metalwork, Cypriot and ...

In Samantar v. Yousuf, the US Supreme Court held that foreign officials, when sued in their individual capacity, are subject to immunity under ...

Ma’at was a fundamental concept in ancient Egyptian society. It can be understood as “the rightness of things” and was a ...

We make tents with mixed feelings: support for the people of Gaza and pain for what they have endured,” a tentmaker in his ...

Shadi Abdel Salam crafted a cinematic tomb—an exquisite meditation on Egypt’s past, identity, and memory. A film that ...

Jacob Epstein was very upset. For months, the sculptor had toiled on a memorial tomb for Oscar Wilde, the celebrated—and ...

The extraordinary care with which that Bashiri mummy was wrapped suggests this person was also of great importance in ancient Egyptian society. But the identity of the corpse remains unknown ...

But the trip took a horrific turn when the pair were approached by a tiger shark in the Egyptian waters, while they swam just 160 feet from the beach in an area where the resort's jetty allows ...