Stepping up to the table, the tourist squinted to make out what lay underneath the dusty glass top. “ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GAME, ...

Even in their natural state, some asperigimycins killed leukemia cells in lab tests. But the researchers went further. By ...

Boasting King Tut's treasures and countless other riches, anticipation for the Grand Egyptian Museum mounts as delays thwart ...

Tucked away in Houston’s northern reaches sits a museum that gives new meaning to the phrase “deadly serious” – the National Museum of Funeral History. This isn’t your typical “let’s go see some ...

Our eight-day cruise hit many highlights: the extensive temples at Karnak and Luxor; the colossal statues of Ramses II ...

The study of Arabic culture – and in particular the art and artefacts it produces – is currently being propelled out of its once narrow ...

A mushroom once thought to be an ancient Egyptian curse has been found to be a potential cure for some forms of cancer.

These results show that many more medicines derived from natural products remain to be found,” one professor said.

King Tutankhamun's legacy continues to fascinate, nearly a century after his tomb's discovery. Recent research unveils that ...

Researchers believe that a fungus thought to be found in ancient tombs may provide a valuable new tool in the fight against ...

The towering Greek philosopher and poet Homer described olive oil as “liquid gold” and the Greek tragedian extraordinaire Sophocles called olives “our sweet silvered wet nurse”. Olive oil is the oil ...

When we visited King Tut’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, we were in the midst of a guided Abercrombie & Kent tour of Egypt and Jordan. There were 17 in our group, including a family from NYC with ...