George Washington Carver's Egyptian blue rediscovery links Iowa to ancient history at NYC museum ...

Pharaoh’s Animal Kingdom, a new exhibition for children at the Israel Museum, explores the relationship between animals and ...

Today, when one thinks of the origin of sports and athletic competitions, the ancient Greeks often come to mind. Although ...

very Egyptian, very powerful" symbol. Its pervasiveness in artwork, adornments, amulets, and temple reliefs speaks to its important function in the religious and cultural practice of ancient Egypt ...

In an exhibition on ancient Egyptian-inspired fashion at the Cleveland Museum of Art, a relief depicts the wife of Amenhotep wearing a kalasiris, or long linen dress, juxtaposed with a white ...

In the 1970s, a Ramses cartouche was discovered at Themilat Radadi, along the Egyptian-Israeli border, an area associated with the copper trade. To date, no archaeological artifacts have been ...

an ancient city not far from modern-day Damascus. A floor-to-ceiling relief depicts the pharaoh’s heroics in the face of what he claimed were nearly 50,000 Hittite warriors. Egyptian and Hittite ...

From demon to danger noodle, human ideas about snakes can be as contradictory as the creatures themselves. In Slither, Stephen S. Hall challenges our serpent stereotypes.

The tomb, adorned with Egyptian-style relief carvings ... bank—typically associated with sunset and death—that ancient Egyptians believed was the source of Creation. Egyptian rule prevailed ...

Sea water levels are already rising because of climate change. A big earthquake will cause them to go up even more, besides ...

A vast library was assembled in Assyria by King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2,700 years ago. The ...