Ashraf Omar Eldarir failed to declare the stolen goods when he entered the United States through New York's John F. Kennedy ...

Snap, owner of the video messaging app Snapchat, has partnered with the Louvre on a free program called Egypt Augmented, which will give users an interactive deep dive into the museum’s renowned ...

In order to tell time once the sun set, the ancient Egyptians identified 36 groups of stars in the night sky and used their positions to gauge the hour. Known as decans, each one was associated with ...

Archaeologists identified a complete and previously unknown copy of the Canopus Decree, a royal edict issued by King Ptolemy ...

In the ruins of the ancient Assyrian metropolis Nineveh, in modern Iraq, researchers have unearthed a rare artifact: a massive stone relief depicting important deities and Ashurbanipal, the last great ...

Astrophysicists shed light on the relationship between the Milky Way and the Egyptian sky-goddess Nut. The paper draws on ancient Egyptian texts and simulations to argue that the Milky Way might have ...

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Excavations in Iraq have unearthed the remains of a massive relief depicting both the last great ruler of the Assyrian empire and two deities. The remains—missed by archaeologists for more than a ...

The iconic prize was designed almost a century ago by MGM art director Cedric Gibbons, and bears a striking resemblance to ancient depictions of Ptah, the Egyptian god of artists and craftsmen. By ...