From vanished tombs to strange rituals, Ancient Egypt holds mysteries that may never be solved. These lost civilisations shaped history yet left behind unanswered questions ...

This feature, republished for the Coptic New Year, explores Egypt’s Pharaonic, Coptic, and Islamic calendars as novelist ...

The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago.

The Ringling Museum puts together a show tracing the artistic journey of Yoshida Hiroshi, who reinvented woodblock printing.

Frantic negotiations with the Israeli military. A last-minute scramble to find trucks in a devastated Gaza Strip, where fuel ...

This finding documents smoke-dried mummification of the dead, mostly in tightly bound crouched postures, from archaeological ...

In the highlands of eastern Congo, coffee farmers are seeing their crops dry out and rot as an escalation in the long-running conflict has kept them from tending to their land this year. Rachel Faber ...

A new study using artificial intelligence to analyze satellite imagery has reduced the estimated number of wildebeest in ...

People used to eat lots of vegetables that have slipped into obscurity, from roots that taste like chestnuts to coastal ...

Cucumbers are part of many ethnic cuisines throughout Asia and Europe. In many cuisines, they are served with yogurt, which ...

Lamu is a historic Swahili port town on an island off the northern coast of Kenya. Each year it hosts the famous Lamu Maulidi ...