The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys 150 years of Black artists turning to ancient Egypt.

Some 15,000 recovered items are housed at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples—and now, ... Hundreds of Looted Ancient Artifacts Confiscated From the Black Market Are Now on Display in ...

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now Opens Sunday— Feb. 17, 2025, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan; metmuseum.org.

In museums and on archaeological sites, they embody an immaculate Greece with idealised forms. But make no mistake, this vision is far from historical reality: Greek statues were not white.

In late September and early October 2024, a black-and-white photograph circulated on social media purportedly showing the "last giant silicon tree" in 1899. The image's caption referenced a theory ...

A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian ...

In a first, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of a man from ancient Egypt, and the results reveal that he had ...

Walk through the Greek sculpture galleries of most museums and you'll see pedestal after pedestal of white, marble statues with sightless eyes. That's just how Ancient Greek sculpture was, right ...

ALBAWABA - A 2017 article by Nature Communications went viral on social media after users on X (formerly known as Twitter) speculated that Ancient Egypt ...

A Dutch museum has provoked social media anger that has spread as far as Egypt with an exhibition on how ancient Egyptian culture has been seen through the eyes of artists with African roots.

But Hanna told CBS News the facts from more than 2,000 years ago were less clear. "We do not know for sure whether Cleopatra was Black or White or even red, and we don't even know if she thought ...

Penn Museum’s exhibit titled “Ancient Food & Flavor,” recently opened on June 3, poses the question, “What can burned seeds, dried meats, or waterlogged fruits, remarkably preserved for ...