History fascinates the world and is crucial for understanding it as well, so we look at which is the most expensive house of ...

British archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first souls to enter King Tutankhamen’s tomb in more than ...

For museums to truly grasp their colonial history, self-examination must go beyond questioning how they built their collections to how they interpret them. View of the "Evolution of Civilizations" ...

Egyptologist Wilkinson presents a clear, comprehensive and beautifully illustrated (in color and b&w) guide to the bewildering array of Egyptian deities--a complete catalogue of gods and goddesses ...

This latest volume in Oxford University Press's Places in Time series covers the range and scope of ancient Egypt by examining 19 monumental remains. Among them are Hierakompolis, the earliest ...

Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...

While his interest in ancient Greco-Roman sculpture served as a wellspring of inspiration, an often overlooked part of his artistic stimulation also came from ancient Egyptian art. Rodin was, in fact, ...

When the Carnegie Museum of Natural History shuttered their Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt last year, many of the museum’s priceless Egyptian relics left the public eye. More than 80 pieces from its ...

(CNN) — Cancer is often regarded as a disease of the modern age. However, medical texts from ancient Egypt indicate that healers of the time were aware of the condition. Now, new evidence from a skull ...

Reading the news these days is often a depressing and anxiety inducing task. The sources of these modern human malignancies are generally the same: male leaders who want to maintain economic, ...