American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

Rasha El Agroudy, a visual artist and lecturer at Alexandria University's Faculty of Fine Arts, shared with Ahram Online her ...

Wisconsin Historical Society researchers have uncovered 16 ancient canoes in Lake Mendota, some of which are thousands of ...

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient canoes, including one that’s 5,200 years old, making it even older than Egypt’s Great ...

As Holocaust Remembrance Day nears, two filmmakers warn that silencing uncomfortable truths about the past fuels modern ...

The Open University has been forced to back down on claims the Virgin Mary was born in “ancient Palestine” following a legal ...

Ancient Greeks placed great emphasis on healthy skin, and developed many useful and largely natural beauty tips.

Iron Age cargoes from Dor reveal how ancient Mediterranean trade evolved alongside shifting empires and political power. New ...

Did Octavian, later known as the Roman emperor Augustus, have an affair with Julius Caesar? That’s precisely what Mark Antony ...

In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.

From ancient mythology to modern pop culture, humanity has long been fascinated by twins. It’s no wonder, considering their ...

Tracing the evolution of royal funerary practices during the 18th Dynasty, one of ancient Egypt’s greatest and most dynamic ...