Amethyst was fashionable in the Middle Kingdom. Archaeologists discovered jewelry belonging to Middle Kingdom queens and princesses in pyramids at a site called Dahshur around 25 miles south of Cairo.

While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a ...

Sherif Fathy, Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, who visited Japan for the exhibition “Ramses the Great and the ...

From ancient amulets to everyday rituals, here’s a look at some well-known lucky symbols and where their superstitions come ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons in a mass grave in Mongolia has revealed they were soldiers in the Han-Xiongnu Wars more than ...

The project was soon dubbed 'Reviving the Ancient City of Gold' and slowly led to the restoration of this ancient site. It ...

A team of Egyptian and French archaeologists has uncovered a stash of exquisitely preserved ancient jewelry during ...