In 1798, during the French Revolutionary Wars, General Napoleon Bonaparte led a French expedition to Egypt. The plan was to conquer the wealthy province and deal a major blow to British interests in ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...

In order to fund the museum's colossal €800 million renovation plan, director Laurence des Cars has no shortage of ideas: ...

The painting symposium will showcase the art of 26 world-renowned visual artists from different countries, including Egypt, England, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, and the United States.

Jacob Epstein was very upset. For months, the sculptor had toiled on a memorial tomb for Oscar Wilde, the celebrated—and ...

To the East India Company and the British Raj that followed it, mapping was an obsession. The empires that came before them, such as the Mughal and the Marathas, did not engage in cartography in ...