Two decades after construction began, the Grand Egyptian Museum, which houses more than 100,000 ancient treasures, will host ...

Oldest gym membership written in Greek on papyrus 1,800 years ago reveals structured athletic life in Roman Egypt.

The newfound tomb of an Egyptian prince has a false door, which ancient people viewed as an "entry" and "exit" for souls in ...

The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands ...

Of course, science and biology are integral in this symbolism: The female reproductive cell is an egg, after all. Apart from ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Pelletier discovered seven previously undocumented messages carved into the 3,300-year-old Luxor Obelisk in Paris.

Going back some 5,000 years, the "hand" unit of measurement based on the width of the human hand remains the standard for ...

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

Digging into the sandy soil of northern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a rusty metal object unlike anything they’d seen ...

Once the largest country in Africa, Sudan was divided into two distinct regions: the predominantly Arab-Muslim north and the ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...