In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

Head to the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, housing Tutankhamun’s treasures and Ramses the Great’s obelisk, near the Pyramids ...

We begin in Egypt in 1890, as a body is boxed up and shipped out to none other than Woodstone Mansion. As the box is wheeled ...

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue.

Is it the long-faded colors of ancient artifacts from all around the world or the hushed sounds of visitors discussing what ...

Out of that beautiful abundance, a dream was born: that Egypt should build a new museum worthy of the vastness of its history - one that would present its antiquities through a modern scientific and ...

The ancient Egyptians ran an efficiently organised health service which was open to everyone, irrespective of wealth or class ...

Whether it's an ancient death mask found on an Egyptian sarcophagus or the selfie you have just cropped on your phone, we have been creating portraits for centuries. So why do we love them so much?

The colossal project dates back to the 1990s. The huge site, next to the pyramids of Giza, is billed as the largest museum in ...

The Museum of Idaho is excited to announce a generous $50,000 donation from Oklo, an advanced nuclear technology company ...

Horus, the falcon-headed god, embodied the sky, war, and divine kingship in ancient Egypt. His battle against Set and his role as protector of pharaohs made him one of the most revered gods in history ...