Five centuries ago, a single misprinted image in a German Bible quietly rewired how Europeans pictured the world and their ...

A pair of horses recently towed an antique piece of farm equipment through a cornfield in Kresgeville. In their wake, columns of cornstalks fell to the ground, already bound together and tied with ...

An undisturbed cemetery dating back thousands of years has been uncovered in Egypt, where a copy of the Book of the Dead has ...

The Amarna Letters contain records of ancient lords and rulers seeking to establish diplomatic ties with Egyptian pharaohs.

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

Here’s a breakdown of the origin of the Christmas Tree and which culture is credited with the Christmas tree traditions we ...

Archaeologists working in Egypt have brought to light a remarkably preserved funerary papyrus that specialists are already ...

Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, Italy(Fotonews/Splash News/Corbis) Herculaneum’s Villa of the Papyri was one of the most luxurious Roman properties to have been buried by the eruption of Mount ...

In a celebration of one of Egypt’s oldest and most defining cultural symbols, the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir inaugurated on ...

At the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, ‘From Green Papyrus to Timeless Art’ resurrects an ancient medium for writing through the ...

The Derveni Papyrus found in Greece is of immense importance and was registered by UNESCO in 2015 as the oldest handwritten ...

Centuries before Europeans began to settle in North America, explorers who came here found thriving First Nations and Inuit societies with their own beliefs, way of life and rich history. When the ...