The decorated plaster was found dumped in a large pit at a London development site that has previously yielded other ...

An excavation in London has revealed one of the largest collections of painted Roman wall plaster to be discovered in the ...

It is believed the frescoes once decorated at least 20 internal walls of a high-status Roman building between AD 40 and 150.

The "secrets of combat" were inscribed in stone on the walls of temples and tombs of ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom (2,700 to 2,200 BC) until the arrival of the Greeks, who conquered the North African ...

Let us know via science@newsweek.com. Reference Graur, O. (2024). The ancient Egyptian personification of the Milky Way as the sky-goddess Nut: An astronomical and cross-cultural analysis.

As French troops prepared to face Ottoman forces in Rosetta, Egypt, in July 1799, they stumbled upon a chunk of carved stone. Stuck into the wall of a fort, it displayed three languages — and soon ...

For example, during one brief yet notable episode in Egyptian history during around 1350 BC, the pharaoh Akhenaten instituted sweeping changes in Egyptian society, including moving the capital to a ...

The coffin, including the painting of the blue-haired woman, is an authentic ancient Egyptian artifact discovered in 2023 in ...

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something eight-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, ...