Two Italian scientists claim to have discovered 38,000-year-old structures buried deep beneath the pyramids. But there's a ...

Art Deco may be hard to define, but you know it when you see it. Its architecture is at once angular—associated with shapes ...

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

Since the birth of humanity people have fought each other. Over time the ancient weapons have been replaced by more ...

Since the late 1800s, women have studied Ancient Egypt, but it wasn't always easy to enter the profession. Here are 8 trailblazers who led the way.

This third episode in the Ancient Racism series explores evolving ideas of ethnicity from imperial art to mythology, highlighting how Egyptians viewed foreigners and interacted with neighboring ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and more.

A painting of what Prototaxites may have looked like, 400 million years ago. (Image credit: Painting by Mary Parrish, National Museum of Natural History.) Scientists have discovered that a bizarre ...

A section of the 3,100-year-old military leader’s tomb. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools and edited by ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic period in ...

The limestone tomb chamber, dating to about 3,600 years ago, of an unknown ancient Egyptian king, discovered during excavations by Penn Museum and Egyptian archeologists, is seen in Abydos ...

"Thomas Kinkade's style is illustrative saccharine fantasy rather than art with which you can connect at any meaningful level," Charlotte Mullins, the author of A Little History of Art, tells the BBC.