In her curation of “The World Between,” Dakouri-Hild calls attention to the complexities of cultural formation in geographic ...

From Sigiriya in Sri Lanka to the astonishing Pompeii in Italy, we take a look at some of the most fabulous cities lost and ...

In a breakthrough that could reset theorigin story of Ancient Egypt’s most sacred religious site, a team of geoarchaeologists ...

About 300 ships offer Nile River cruises in Egypt, but Viking Amun stands out for two reasons. (A) In true Viking Cruises' ...

Merit's head covering was made from real human hair and was buried with her in its own wooden cabinet.

Witness the ultimate transformation of a man into a living god. This is the epic, five-day coronation of Ramses II, a sacred and secretive ritual high on the mountain of Amun where a mortal king was ...

Sobia, a creamy drink made from rice, milk, coconut, and sugar, originated in medieval Egypt as a fermented beverage and evolved into a nonalcoholic Ramadan staple. Egyptian sobia is sweet, cooling, ...

Eos, the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, with her abode the sky, was perhaps the most resplendent of all the beings in the ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza—the largest of Egypt’s pyramids—consists of about 2.3 million limestone blocks. The smallest of these weigh two tons, while the largest weigh over 60. History says laborers ...

Dark, direct, soulful: The eyes of the Al Fayyum portraits stare out and invite viewers in to see the faces of Egyptians who lived thousands of years ago, when the Greek Ptolemy rule gave way to Rome.