More than two years after achieving independence from the British, India adopted its Constitution on 1949. Drafted under the ...

Scholar Roger Luckhurt’s richly illustrated book chronicles the ways we memorialize the dead across the world, tracing burial ...

Discover the 9 most famous Egyptian monuments. Learn about the Great Pyramid to Abu Simbel, with history, facts, and must-see ...

From a distance, a stepped stone silhouette on Peru’s coast can look uncannily like something lifted from the Nile. The resemblance is striking enough that visitors often reach for Egyptian ...

A recent scientific study has unraveled the mysteries of a Roman bronze steelyard balance discovered near the ancient city of ...

Bahansa, Egypt, where archaeologists uncovered 13 golden tongues and nails inside tombs from the Greco-Roman period, older ...

A stunning archaeological discovery in Tanis has revealed the long-lost tomb of Pharaoh Sheshonq III, rewriting history.

Flowers, often part of Minoan and Egyptian art, were symbols of life, the afterlife, and rebirth, according to a study of ...

In the clay-shaded gloom of the northern chamber of the tomb of Pharaoh Osorkon II, meticulous archaeological cleaning work ...

Long before debates about statues, there are the people themselves: the ancient Egyptians taken from their tombs, unwrapped, ...

Highlights from this massive archaeological museum include the complete collection of treasures discovered within King Tut’s ...

A 22-centimeter alabaster vase, inscribed to the Persian king Xerxes I, has revealed that narcotics were part of everyday ...