Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

Massive Levantine-Egyptian stone head of a pharaoh, Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 B.C. Likely from a monumental sphinx, wearing royal 'nemes' headdress ...

The best way to follow up your trip to the pyramids is by visiting the Egyptian Museum. This massive facility contains more than 100,000 artifacts from ancient Egypt, including sarcophagi ...

Putting up a mezuzah in one’s doorway is a timeless and meaningful means of asserting proud Jewish identity. When it was ...

Rare and exceptional artworks and relics from the world’s most acclaimed cultures will cross the auction block along with ...

Mary Beard, described as the most famous classicist in Britain, presented her lecture titled “The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum” on ...

The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum hosts the largest collection of ancient Egyptian finds on the West Coast, boasting more than 4,000 artifacts. Along with a tomb replica, the museum's many ...

A crumb of bread entombed thousands of years ago alongside an ancient Egyptian mummy has been discovered ... who began working with the museum to study fossilised plants. While cataloguing the ...

But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day 129 of a hunger strike, she was just a mother — a mom trying to win freedom for her son who has ...

The Instructions of Amenemhat, also known as The Teaching of King Amenemhat I to His Son Senusret, is a literary work from ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), situated adjacent to the iconic Pyramids of Giza, is set to officially open its doors to visitors on July 3rd 2025. As the largest and most advanced archaeological ...

British Museum/Scala, Florence This black basalt slab which has greatly enhanced scholars’ understanding of Egyptian theology, was inscribed on the orders of the 25th-dynasty Kushite king Shabaka.