The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands ...

Forget Howard Carter. The polymath Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie was the greatest Egyptologist and is rightly deemed ...

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their varying stances toward abolition ...

The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...

There are a number of excellent psychedelic songs that were released in the 1960s, and many of them fell under the radar, such as these classics.

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb of an unknown pharaoh beneath around 20 ... In December and January, a team of American and Egyptian archaeologists excavated the roughly ...

Archaeologists have made a remarkable discovery in Egypt, unearthing a 4,000-year-old tomb belonging to an ancient prince.

The latest work—led by the Archaeological Preservation and Registration sector of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Archaeology, the ...

In the formative process of the exodus, the Jewish people leave a land that represents the height of pride, and they journey ...

At least six-and-a-half of The Ten Commandments are broken in the movie The Ten Commandments, the Cecil B. DeMille/Charlton ...