The Call of Kinnaru and Visiting Professor of Classics Marissa Henry took to the stage last Thursday for a performance of ...

Credit: Y. Al Rahbi Researchers suspect these instruments could have been struck in ceremonies that united people from different backgrounds. For ancient communities, music was more than art. It ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Ancient Egypt was closely connected with other parts of the world, bringing in and exporting goods, religions, food, people and ideas. At times ancient Egypt ruled territory outside the modern-day ...

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the last known inscription written in the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt, inscribed on Hadrian’s Gate in AD 394, Philae, Egypt. Credit: Following Hadrian. CC BY 2.0/flickr ...

Field work takes place near the site where the tomb chamber, dating to about 3,600 years ago, of an unknown ancient Egyptian king was discovered during excavations by Penn Museum and Egyptian ...

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 Egypt's ...

Jars with animal and human heads found at the site. Credit: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities A joint team of French and Egyptian archaeologists has uncovered a series of ancient tombs, ...

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The lower part of the statue, which depicts King Ramesses II, one of ancient Egypt's most powerful rulers, was found in 1930.

Credit: Diego Moran/UC Berkeley Online, products marketed as blue lotus claim to offer relaxation and even psychedelic experiences — but they’re a far cry from what ancient Egyptians actually used, ...

In an exhibition on ancient Egyptian-inspired fashion at the Cleveland Museum of Art, a relief depicts the wife of Amenhotep wearing a kalasiris, or long linen dress, juxtaposed with a white ...