Cairo is a spread-out city with heavy traffic, depending on the time of day, so it’s best to have everything you need with ...

Breastfeeding has been depicted in art throughout the centuries, forming a visual representation of women’s lived experiences concerning religion and societal expectations. Ancient civilizations ...

Who were the women who inhabited ancient Pompeii? A new exhibition of art, objects, and personal testimonies has the answers.

More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway. Inside the unusuall ...

In the Greco-Roman period some masks followed the older, more traditional ... clothing, hairstyles, and accessories reflect the fashion of the time. They show people dressed not in the Egyptian ...

The tomb's giant false door. The ancient Egyptians believed that the spirit of the deceased could go in and out through it. . | Credit: Courtesy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

Instead, the family, women especially, took care of the dead, washing and clothing the corpse in ... heaven for the blessed derives from the ancient Egyptians. According to them, before being ...

The pyramids of ancient Egypt and Sudan may not have been just for the rich, according to burials found at the archaeological site of Tombos in Sudan. "Our findings suggest that pyramid tombs ...

As far as the ancient sources are concerned ... which left the bare breasts exposed in a manner popular amongst native Egyptian women. Sculpture of a Ptolemaic queen, possibly Cleopatra VII. The sheer ...

This large number of texts “will allow for wide-ranging conclusions on the role of women and the transfer of knowledge in Ancient Egypt,” Kahl ... and pieces of her clothing, damaged by ...