Last week, Richmond's newest baseball team was named the Flying Mummies, but what is the story behind the Richmond's two ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on Saturday opened the tomb of New Kingdom Pharaoh Amenhotep III in the Valley of ...

Roman sarcophagus decorated with classical figures of warriors and maidens represented in relief. The warriors appear to overpower the maidens. The warriors are dressed in Roman uniforms and the women ...

There are good reasons to be drawn to antiquities, but also many reasons to hesitate before buying, starting with concerns ...

Hadfield’s engaging Poirot infuses the character with a warmth and sense of authority and also acts as narrator. The presence ...

Abby Bangser, curator of the inaugural Reflections section at Frieze Masters, explains how two landmark collections inspired ...

Myth and Marble,” an exhibition of the Torlonia Collection at the Kimbell Art Museum, has been thousands of years in the ...

After two decades behind sealed doors, one of ancient Egypt’s largest and most dazzling tombs has finally reopened in Luxor.

From 250-year-old wood carvings to salt and pepper shakers and modern architecture, a new exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum explores how the style and art of ancient Egypt have influenced British ...

Agatha Christie was an early advocate of setting stories in exotic locales to give audiences the vicarious thrill of ...

Smoke from a funeral pyre over 3,700 years ago left behind a trail of charcoal. That faint trace, sealed inside a terracotta sarcophagus buried in Kilnamandi village of Tiruvannamalai district, has ...

The first-ever scientific dating of a sarcophagus (terracotta coffin) found in Kilnamandi village in Tiruvannamalai district indicates that Tamil Nadu might have had trade contact with the north ...