Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus, a stunning water lily that stars in some of ...

The handful animal ghosts in the ancient world are often depicted not as friendly visitors but as mere tools for humans – and ...

In 2023, a team of archaeologists from the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, led by historian Bérangère Redon, found ...

Ma’at was a fundamental concept in ancient Egyptian society. It can be understood as “the rightness of things” and was a ...

The museum's renovations in the Ancient Egypt and Nubia galleries are the second part of the Museum’s Building Transformation ...

The Plumbworld expert explained that the "go-to" cleaning agent worked as a "natural degreaser, odor eliminator, and antibacterial scrub" and likened it to bicarbonate of soda, soda crystals and salt ...

Byzantine education was based on the study of... After Alexander the Great added Egypt to his conquests, he went on a long, perilous journey to meet the ancient Siwa Oracle where he received a ...

Gold was originally highly prized for its decorative value, used in jewellery and ornamentation by many ancient peoples ...

Despite more than  200 years of archaeological discoveries that disprove this Creation Myth as just that - a myth, a ...

A historian with Laboratoire HiSoMA, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, in France, has theorized that ...

This stunning seaside city is the largest city on the Mediterranean coast and once stood as Egypt's capital city for almost a ...

Amethyst was fashionable in the Middle Kingdom. Archaeologists discovered jewelry belonging to Middle Kingdom queens and princesses in pyramids at a site called Dahshur around 25 miles south of Cairo.