In 1798, during the French Revolutionary Wars, General Napoleon Bonaparte led a French expedition to Egypt. The plan was to ...

The Cairo revolt was bloody - and Napoleon made it bloodier. What began as a dream of Enlightenment in Egypt turned into a nightmare of executions, repression, and political failure. This is how it ...

AN ancient necklace and mummy mask were among the “priceless” artefacts snatched from an Australian museum. A 52-year-old man has been charged after allegedly smashing a window at the ...

Highly valued in diverse cultures, the horse gallops to pole position in the Chinese zodiac. Famous horse babies include ...

Extraordinary treasures from The Al Thani Collection and the Victoria and Albert Museum on display at the Hôtel de la Marine trace how royal and aristocratic gems shaped dynasties and defined ...

Today, there have been humane acts of returning works of art taken during the age of colonisation to African nations, fostering a glow of new understanding upon glancing back at the past and bridging ...

With new technology, smarter tools, and a lot of patient digging, historians and archaeologists are uncovering marvels from every corner of the world. One day it’s an enormous thigh bone from a ...

The krewe, whose name is an acronym for New Orleans Most Talked-Of Club, is Carnival’s only West Bank Carnival procession. It will roll Feb. 14, 10:45 a.m., in the Algiers neighborhood. KREWE OF IRIS: ...

Turin, Piedmont’s provincial capital, as seem from the Duomo. Located in the foothills of the western Alps, the city is Italy ...

Running parallel to the south is Rue de Rivoli, which borders the Jardin des Tuileries, a stroll-worthy landscaped park that ...

When Trump hits a stone wall, he changes the subject. But the situation in Iran is far more complex and trickier than the one ...

Alexander the Great and the first President of modern Greece Ioannes Kapodistrias employed the Hellenic civilization for the good of humanity ...