A blooming lilac recalls Miss “Flora Belle” and her scented sachets. Local columnist Joe Phillips reflects on fading ...

Archaeologists discovered the largest trove of ostraca—inscriptions on broken pottery sherds—ever found, with over 43,000 ...

Inscriptions found include notes on exercises by schoolchildren, religious texts, and certificates for the quality of ...

Founded by Egypt's Greek rulers, Soknopaiou Nesos holds one of the Fayyum's best-preserved Ptolemaic temple complexes.

In the delirious and exhilarating Sephardic dance that finished their concert devoted to the Jewish, Muslim and Christian ...

Seven Harvard affiliates told Fifteen Minutes their answer to the same question: “How does AI change the meaning of your work ...

Ramesses II (“Ramesses the Great”) is believed by many to have been the pharoah in the biblical story of the Exodus. A statue ...

How did an Egyptian scarab make it all the way to the Iberian Peninsula in pre-Roman times?

An Egyptian-German archaeological team has uncovered approximately 13,000 inscribed pottery fragments at the ancient site of Athribis, offering a rare window into more than 1,000 years of daily life ...

"The potential windfall from persuading punters to put their own money onto his gravy train could potentially dwarf the seven ...

As part of the year-long celebrations to mark 250 years of modern languages at Trinity, four outstanding individuals were ...

This is the Rosetta Stone. It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into it: Demotic, Hieroglyphs and ancient Greek. The broken top and bottom edges suggest it was part of ...