Over the past two decades, exhibits like Gods in Color and Chroma have popularized the idea that the ancient world was awash in color. But what do we really know about how ancient peoples understood ...

Researchers from Washington State University (WSU), in collaboration with colleagues at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute, successfully ...

Inside Ancient Egypt is an up-close look at the daily lives of ancient Egyptians—as well as how they thought about death. Enter through a three-story replica of a mastaba, a type of ancient Egyptian ...

Egyptian and German experts have successfully restored the lost colors and glimmering metals that once enlivened ancient Egypt’s second largest, and perhaps best preserved, temple. Since 2021, Egypt’s ...

Egyptian archaeologists completing their 10th season of excavations at Gerza, 75 miles southwest of modern day Cairo, have announced the excavation of two full mummy portraits and further fragmentary ...

Crates filled with millenia-old Egyptian treasures, ranging from religious icons to clay pots, are arriving weekly at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, as artists feverishly work to transform a ...

It’s hard to imagine a world without the color blue. What would come of the skies and the oceans? And what about people born with blue eyes? A TikTok account called Psychopoly raised the question of ...

From Cheops to Ramses II” is more than an immersive Egyptian travelogue, though it hits all the major tourist destinations.

Another common misconception about ancient Egypt thanks to Hollywood is that all Egyptians were mummified and placed in ...

Built during Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, the pyramids on the Giza Plateau has been drawing visitors for thousands of years. The earliest records of tourists dates back to the 5 th century BCE, when Greek ...

Meet Tetinebefou—the wizard-doctor, priest, and royal dentist—whose newly discovered tomb reveals dazzling secrets about ...

These days, it's true that most coffins are not folichon. And Jacques Prévert seems to be in the right when he describes coffin stories as sad and not pretty. And yet... Around the world, a ...