The carob seed which became the modern carats shows how ancient Greeks devised ingenious ways to ensure fairness in trade.

NPR art director and illustrator Jackie Lay tells the story of Hatshepsut, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest ...

A 1500-year-old stone-and-brick tank on Elephanta shows advanced rainwater storage and hints at the island’s role in global ...

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Senet, invented by at least 3500 BCE in predynastic Egypt, is presented as the oldest known board game in the world. Played ...

A fossil found in northern Egypt from a new species, Masripithecus moghraensis, is changing long held ideas about ape and human origins.

Egyptian archaeologists recently unearthed the remnants of a Christian monastic site from the 5th century — some 400 years after the time of Jesus Christ.

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in the temple of Philae is the last known use of hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt, but why did they stop being used?

Even someone who has not read the tales of Basile, Perrault, or the Brothers Grimm will know that of Cinderella, whether ...

An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our ...

In this lecture Dr Campbell Price will be talking about ancient Egyptian images and new ways in which they may be interpreted. The Ancient Egyptians are immediately recognisable from their art. Unlike ...

A crossroad between East and West, Greece’s ‘Blue City’ is a melting pot of cultures. For centuries Byzantines, Ottomans, ...