Pottery vessels recovered from Old Kingdom rock-cut tombs at Qubbat El Hawa in Aswan, Egypt. Credit: Ministry of Culture Archaeologists have uncovered a new group of rock-cut tombs in the southern ...

In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental slab of ice the size of roughly 40 Olympic swimming pools that began to form around ...

Some of the earliest writings — including those inscribed on papyrus in Egypt and later in ancient Greece and Rome — contain recipes for making medicines. Finding physical proof, however, that ...

How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book of the Dead? He found out at the Brooklyn Museum. A detail of the gilded Book of the Dead of Ankhmerwer, a funerary ...

With four months left until the World Cup kicks off across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, squads are lining up training schedules and prep in North America. Cleveland, of course, isn’t one of ...

He turned “cat burglar” into a job description. A 52‑year‑old man has been charged after an Egyptian cat sculpture and “priceless” artifacts were stolen from an Australian history museum, Queensland ...