The 700-year-old scroll by renowned calligrapher Rao Jie fetched over $32 million after a heated bidding battle at Sotheby’s.

London, a city where history and innovation intertwine, boasts an unrivaled collection of museums that captivate and edu ...

From demon to danger noodle, human ideas about snakes can be as contradictory as the creatures themselves. In Slither, Stephen S. Hall challenges our serpent stereotypes.

Which to cruise first - the European river with its own waltz or the Egyptian waterway through a cradle of civilisation? Our ...

From a necklace containing 2,930 diamonds to a vanity case in the shape of a sarcophagus, this show is nothing less than a ...

The new Egyptian Museum – officially known as The Grand Egyptian Museum – is definitely very grand, reports east Auckland ...

A chair shaped like a hooded cobra and a table that evokes a scarab beetle feature in Omar Chakil's Transcendence series.

On Saturday, March 29, the annual Ankh’sgiving dinner was held at Beckham Hall to celebrate students of color at the University. Dozens of students were in attendance.

Archaeologists have discovered a mysterious new king of ancient Egypt, buried in a network of tombs at Anubis Mountain.

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and more.

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics ... many others Ancient Egypt was an influential kingdom in North Africa and the Middle East for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptians were ...

Still, he could help illuminate a forgotten era of Egyptian history from ... To Wegner's dismay, though, ancient tomb robbers had damaged the hieroglyph painting and made the name illegible.