Exactly a century ago, the mummified body of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamen was unwrapped for the first time. It was three years ...

Historians are astonished by the changelessness of ancient Egypt. “The Egyptian ‘canon,’ an archetype for the sculptured human figure, may be the most durable pattern in the history of art,” writes ...

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“Our findings combined with prior research indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

Art and wine surely share the same DNA. From the frescoes of ­Pompeii to the glass of free plonk at the ­gallery opening, ...

In a recent archaeological breakthrough, tombs dating back 3,000 years were uncovered in Egypt, revealing contents that were ...

The ancient Egyptians devised a way to document thousands of years of history before the pyramids were built, members of ...