The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

A Study Gallery of India and the Ancient World, trains its lens to the duration between the Harappan civilisation — which ...

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For over a century, scholars debated whether the cones depicted on the heads of ancient Egyptians in tomb reliefs were symbolic or real objects. Excavations at Amarna finally revealed two cones ...

Libya's national museum, formerly known as As-Saraya Al-Hamra or the Red Castle, has reopened in Tripoli, allowing the public ...

But for every off-putting ancient hygiene practice, there are countless others that don’t sound so bad. Ancient Egyptians ...

The world’s first lock and key system was invented in ancient Egypt around 4000 BCE. Made of wood, it used simple pins and bolts to secure doors, a design that still influences modern locks today.

Christos Tsirogiannis has spent almost two decades trawling through inventories of museums, auction houses and other collections for illegally trafficked antiquities.

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The beloved tradition can become a hassle when you don't properly maintain your Christmas tree. Here's what you should know.

The practice dates to ancient Egypt and Rome, where hieroglyphs from 1400 B.C. depict espaliered fig trees to maximize fruit ...