The 5,000-year-old manuscript was discovered in an Egyptian tomb and is believed to hold knowledge about the origins of ...

More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long it would stick around. The Tarkhan Dress, carbon-dated to 3482 to 3102 B.C., ...

The Penn Museum has been involved in archaeological research in Egypt for more than a century. Most of the material in the ...

THE opening of a mega-museum – home to the famous “cursed” coffin – has been postponed again over war tensions. Cairo’s Grand Egyptian Museum will be home to more ...

It doesn’t matter what the rest of it is, which was really quite surprising to us,” said John McCloy, director of Washington ...

Expect a fair chunk of the crowds to be clustered around the museum’s ancient Egyptian treasures, the centrepiece of which is ...

Most dogs are pretty fast when they have their eye on the ball. It could even be the sound of food hitting their bowl, or an ...

From the spotted Egyptian Mau to the elegant Turkish Angora, these are the oldest breeds that still exist today ...

Micronesia's Nan Madol is one of the very few places in the world which continues to perplex archaeologists. How and why it ...

Certain mysteries from the ancient world are still largely unexplained today and continue to puzzle scientists and researchers.

The singer shines in Michael Mayer’s staging of Verdi’s tragic opera in this presentation from ‘Great Performances at the Met ...

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...