On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

The night before the funeral, the camerlengo will preside over the closing and sealing of the coffin in the presence of other ...

Why in-the-know travelers are flocking to a chic hideaway in Luxor, once the capital of ancient Egypt.

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Some of the city’s gates still stand, guarded by statues of lions, sphinxes, and an axe-wielding god. But much is gone ... when carvings at ancient Egyptian temples and diplomatic correspondence ...

The recently restored Ponte Sant’Angelo in Rome features 10 angels holding symbols of Christ’s passion, creating a profound ...

Ideas about resurrection had been developing for centuries before Jesus’ life, but his followers took them in new directions.

In antiquity, niches typically contained a statue of a deity such as Apollo ... one of several dedicated to emperors or Greek, Roman or Greco-Egyptian deities Ekin Özbiçer A later church ...

At the bottom, he shined his flashlight through a gap in the limestone wall and was greeted by a god’s gleaming eyes: a small, painted statue of ... served the nearby Egyptian capital of Memphis.