This December marks just over a century since one of the most breath-holding moments in archaeological history — the day in 1922 when Howard Carter first gazed into the long-sealed tomb of Tutankhamun ...

After the conquests of Alexander the Great in Egypt, the Ptolemaic dynasty established Alexandria, the jewel of the ...

As Historic Royal Palaces carries out a search for the nation’s best history teachers, Laura Reid hears from a Yorkshire-born ...

The Spanish master’s angle on performance, treasures from Egypt and the year’s best wildlife images on Earth – all in your weekly dispatch ...

Egypt restores The Colossi of Memnon statues after more than 3,000 years which show the pharaoh Amenhotep III who ruled ...

Called simply “Mummies” and running in the museum’s top-floor temporary exhibition spaces until May next year, the exhibition ...

The pyramids of Egypt are among the greatest engineering achievements in human history. Built over 4,500 years ago, they ...

Dead Funny History: Ramesses the Great. Join historian Greg Jenner for a fast-paced, funny and fascinating journey through the life of Ramesses II, aka Ramesses the Gr8, one of Ancient Egypt’s most ...

The newly excavated 4,500-year-old valley temple from ancient Egypt holds a "public calendar" and a roof for astronomical observation.

Try this ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles, also called Egyptian or Russian math—where you repeatedly halve one ...

Viking cruise ships offer a mind-boggling range of shore excursions for art lovers. See timeless masterpieces by Picasso and ...

Civil rights organizations say the move to uninvite the Black history museum is viewpoint discrimination that is part of a pattern of silencing diverse voices.