Apparently, this approach for remembering grocery lists, house chores, deliveries, and the like was also a huge part of life ...

For nearly 200 years, the centre of Paris has hosted a priceless artefact from Egyptian history, a stunning spectacle for all to behold. Located at Place de la Concorde in the city's eighth ...

The first modern nail polish originated in China around 3000 BC as a status symbol restricted to the upper class. The formula ...

WORLD-RENOWNED Egyptologist Joann Fletcher has curated a number of exhibitions but she says the recently-opened Cleopatr...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered 3,000 new ostraca at the ancient site of Athribis in Sohag, bringing the total number ...

In 1978, the people of Iran erupted into protests against the shah. He was quickly overthrown, and he and his family went ...

The history of Iran, called Persia in ancient times, dates back to antiquity, but it has often been the scene of upheaval and warfare ...

Researchers from the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge found that the Ancient Egyptians used a white pigment to amend their ...

Ex” to correct their sacred texts, experts have discovered. Richly decorated Books of the Dead were created to accompany ...

Today, the scarab remains a focus of popular devotion through a tourist tradition: people circle it - often seven times - seeking luck, love, or a wish fulfilled, echoing (in a modern, secular form) ...

How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book of the Dead? He found out at the Brooklyn Museum. A detail of the gilded Book of the Dead of Ankhmerwer, a funerary ...

Analysis of ancient DNA has uncovered the origins of a mysterious group who appeared in Britain around 2400 BC and, in a century or less, all but replaced the people who built Stonehenge. These people ...