The guqin, with its nearly 3,000-year history, does more than produce music. It is woven into the very fabric of Chinese ...

Crammed into the tiny upstairs of the small Northwest Iowa County Museum in 1980 was a collection of rare and historic ...

Wu Wei plays an ancient Chinese instrument with thousands of years of tradition that’s been “updated” for a modern audience. It’s called the sheng, or Chinese mouth organ. Reporter Caroline Feraday ...

Scientists have recreated the elusive Egyptian blue, a pigment used by ancient Egyptian artists for thousands of years.

Have you ever wondered what Ancient Egyptian sounded like? This fascinating journey into historical linguistics explores how researchers and linguists have pieced together the sounds of one of the ...

From the tombs of pharaohs to Roman frescoes, Egyptian blue adorned everything from sacred artifacts to everyday pottery.

It was ubiquitous in the ancient world. Then, we just... forgot how to make it.

Scientists at Washington State University not only discovered how to recreate the color known as "Egyptian Blue," they also ...

Explore how his music teacher transformed David Endicott's life from trouble to triumph through music and mentorship.

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The tombs of prominent statesmen were discovered in the Dra Abu el-Naga necropolis in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, according to officials. The new discoveries date back to the New Kingdom ...