The Pyramids of Giza sit about 11 miles southwest of downtown Cairo on the Giza Plateau. The pyramids are open daily from 7 a ...

The ancient city of Napata, located in what is now northern Sudan, stood for centuries as a powerful urban and cultural center of the Kingdom of Kush. A new study explains how the city owed its ...

The 2026 Met Gala, themed "Costume Art" with a "Fashion Is Art" dress code, opens the Met’s new Condé M. Nast Galleries and showcases 5,000 years of art and fashion. Set against the backdrop of the ...

Plus, our favorite lighting fixtures debuting at NYCxDesign, your next biohacking retreat (it's in Italy), and more AD ...

Researchers discovered an Iliad fragment in a mummy, marking the first literary papyrus used in embalming and offering new ...

Costume Art opens at the Met Gala with body-positive fashion, new mannequins, and artworks exploring pregnancy, disability, ...

In a historic first, archeologists excavating an ancient Egyptian tomb have found a fragment of Homer's poem The Iliad ...

Oldest gym membership written in Greek on papyrus 1,800 years ago reveals structured athletic life in Roman Egypt.

Think you’ll forget it? Write it down. Apparently, this approach for remembering grocery lists, house chores, deliveries, and the like was also a huge part of life for ancient Egyptians living over ...

On a visit to the British Museum in the 1930s, the American interior designer T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings found himself entranced by several fifth-century vessels from ancient Greece. “On these vases I saw ...

Shabti, the ancient Egyptian funerary figurines that were supposed to work for the deceased in their afterlife, have revealed the identity of a pharaoh in an unnamed sarcophagus. Pharaoh Shoshenq III ...