Egypt has said thousands of artefacts can remain in British museums, but renewed its calls for the Rosetta Stone to be ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

Less than a century after it was rediscovered, National Geographic's correspondent explored the ruins of Petra and found its ...

If you’re searching for the best New York museums and galleries to capture jaw-dropping photos, you’re probably feeling that ...

Arab dictators get a job for life. When they are removed prematurely from their jobs they have a heck of a time handling ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines have been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.