The cave, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Jerusalem, was famous in Byzantine times as a site of Christian ...

Since the days of monarchy, all of these deities had been the subject of strict religious mores in the Roman Republic.

The Egyptian minister of tourism and antiquities called the trio of tombs a "significant" addition to the country's ...

One tomb belonged to Amum-em-Ipet, who lived during the Ramesside period (as the 19th and 20th Dynasties, the last two of the ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have unveiled the millennia-old tombs of three senior statesmen, identified by inscriptions left on ...

Who were the women who inhabited ancient Pompeii? A new exhibition of art, objects, and personal testimonies has the answers.

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to the New Kingdom period (1550–1070 B.C.) and identified the names ...

A few winter constellations, most notably Gemini the Twins and Auriga the Charioteer, are still hanging out in the western ...

The two nations are also co-nominating the Baiheliang Inscriptions in China and the Nilometer on Egypt's Roda Island for ...

The series will consist of 40-minute papers given monthly by established scholars in the field of Egyptian and Greek cultural relations. Lectures will be held on ZOOM; participation is free, but ...

(Related: "Scorpion King's Wines—Egypt's Oldest—Spiked With Meds.") Artifacts and documents from ancient Egypt show that everyone, man or woman from servant to queen, wore black and green ...

But none have left a mark quite like the one in Egypt. Here, the Sphinx represents strength, wisdom, and divine protection—a guardian carved in stone. Shaped with the body of a lion and the head ...