Preserved in the margins of ancient literary works are notes that reveal how the Greeks strove to map mythical places onto ...

As Bar Ilan University professor Joshua Berman engagingly and convincingly demonstrates in his “Echoes of Egypt” Haggadah, the process by which the Passover story took shape was as a polemic against ...

The Monastery of Panagia Yiatrissa (“Mary the Healer”) in Kastania, on the slopes of Taygetus, is traditionally believed to stand on the ruins of an ancient temple dedicated to Athena. In villages ...

Today, the scarab remains a focus of popular devotion through a tourist tradition: people circle it - often seven times - seeking luck, love, or a wish fulfilled, echoing (in a modern, secular form) ...

A researcher claims the Great Pyramids may predate ancient Egypt and could be the work of a lost civilization with advanced engineering.

HAPPENED TONIGHT. ANDRES, THANK YOU. AND WE PULLED THE FLIGHT RECORDS FOR THIS REACH MEDICAL HELICOPTER. IT SHOWS IT LEFT REDDING AT 505 TONIGHT AND LANDED AT THE RED BLUFF AIRPORT AT 517. IT THEN ...

Hidden deep within the Giza Plateau are mysterious shafts that have puzzled researchers for decades. In this video, we ...

Ramadan Tents ...

In a video for the V&A Museum, stone carver Miriam Johnson hand-carves a pair of hieroglyphs “using both sunken relief and raised relief techniques”. The video has minimal narration; mostly it’s just ...

How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book of the Dead? He found out at the Brooklyn Museum. A detail of the gilded Book of the Dead of Ankhmerwer, a funerary ...

Commodity price hikes are dwarfing the financial reach of most Egyptians as they observe fasting in the Islamic month of Ramadan, which began today in this predominantly Muslim nation. The ninth month ...

He turned “cat burglar” into a job description. A 52‑year‑old man has been charged after an Egyptian cat sculpture and “priceless” artifacts were stolen from an Australian history museum, Queensland ...