Art history has all but forgotten the love that sculptor Auguste Rodin had for the art of Egypt. A new exhbition in New York ...

From the ninth to the first centuries BC, in the period before the Roman empire, Etruscan culture flourished in present-day ...

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“Our findings combined with prior research indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

Egypt has experienced rapid population growth in recent decades. Between 1986 to 2018, the number of people in the country ...

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With the news of the Netherlands returning a 3,500-year-old Egyptian sculpture this week, here is a list of ten important ...

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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, ...

Ancient China, a civilization renowned for its profound wisdom and groundbreaking innovations, has gifted the world with numerous inventions that continue to impact our lives today. From the compass ...

Selection of the fragments from the Middle Kingdom metalworking remains. Credit: German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department / CC BY 4.0 A new archaeological study has confirmed that ancient ...

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 ...