Researchers have estimated how much the home's owners may have paid to paint the small sacrarium, calculating the price of ...

Long before pottery, before agriculture, when the first villages took shape, people in the Levant were already molding clay ...

Interest in studying Swahili – the lingua franca of much of East Africa – is booming in Egypt.

The skeleton is the latest in a series of bodies discovered in the city of Dijon that were mysteriously buried in a seated ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Laozi was all too familiar with the pitfalls of comparing yourself to other people’s accomplishments.

Apparently, this approach for remembering grocery lists, house chores, deliveries, and the like was also a huge part of life for ancient Egyptians living over 2,000 years ago—something for which ...

Accompanied by an expert Egyptian guide, this singular small group journey through antiquity travels from vibrant Cairo and the Great Pyramids to Abu Simbel and the Upper Nile for a fascinating cruise ...

The display includes artifacts and watercolor paintings of tomb artwork that were created during Penn Museum excavations from 1921 to 1923.

Students in Greece will revive Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth’s radius and circumference, a remarkable experiment in ...

The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West.

As of Feb. 16, first-time college students at SIU now have the opportunity to register early for fall classes. In years past, staggered enrollment for undergraduates would take place over the course ...