"Cursed! The Power of Magic in the Ancient World" arrives in March, bringing together 75 objects from across two millennia ...

A rock shelter discovered in the southern Sinai Desert contains designs and inscriptions spanning a period of 10,000 years, ...

The same travertine quarries near Rome that built St. Peter’s Basilica and the Colosseum are still being dug out today.

The engravings and drawings are divided into several groups, researchers learned in their initial study of the space, the ...

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.

Authorities examining the rock where the petroglyphs have been discovered. (YouTube Screenshot) The municipality is often presented as a rock-art hotspot within the state, and Heritage Daily notes ...

The British Museum removed references to “Palestine” from some ancient Middle East displays. The decision has drawn criticism ...

Alchemy in Byzantine times was a long intellectual tradition blending Ancient Greek science, Egyptian symbolism, and ...

Ancient face engravings reappear out of the Negro River after historic drought and could rewrite ancient Amazonian origins.

Researchers have identified what may be the earliest known metal drill from ancient Egypt-and it was hidden in plain sight.

At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the artist Nick Cave collected thousands of objects to mount an exhibition on memory and history. His giant mammoth sculptures are potent, timely symbols of ...

The members of this group share unsettling conspiracy theories, bizarre coincidences, unexpected animal behaviors, and everything else that challenges our understanding of reality.