There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

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 ...

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When scholars traced the Bible’s earliest stories back through history, they found striking parallels in Egyptian ...