A team of archaeologists excavating the ancient Maya city of Caracol discovered the tomb of its first ruler, which contained ...

A look at a truly mysterious painting, 'The Questioner of the Sphinx', by Elihu Vedder, and the context in which it was ...

Named Aeneas (after the mythical hero of Rome’s foundation epic), the system is a generative neural network designed to ...

Nile River Cruises is a place of dreams, a country where history exists everywhere, the history of a place is in every stone, ...

Containing vast collections of treasures from the ancient world, the British Museum in London is a prodigious source of ...

Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Pétain, De Gaulle, Eisenhower… Many great military leaders, thanks to the popularity and prestige ...

Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

Join arts24 presenter Eve Jackson on an exclusive journey inside the Grand Egyptian Museum – a colossal cultural masterpiece just a mile from the Great Pyramids of Giza. The museum's grand ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human genome sequence from ancient Egypt. The remains are 4,800 to 4,500 years ...

Most of an ancient Egyptian’s ancestry is best explained using North African genomes — the rest, by genomes from Mesopotamia.

Ancient Egypt is coming to life in Chicago as Dr. Zahi Hawass, the world's most renowned Egyptologist, brings his Royal Evening lecture to McCormick Place.