A claim that they received 4 to 5 liters of beer a day has appeared in social media posts, popular articles and books for ...

Here we delve inside Egypt's pyramids to reveal their many treasures and secrets, while also shining a light on Egypt's ...

Zahi Hawass describes some of the private tombs of the Old Kingdom, built in the expectation ... and priests of the cults of the ancient Egyptian kings. These necropolises, mostly consisting ...

Massive Levantine-Egyptian stone head of a pharaoh, Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 B.C. Likely from a monumental sphinx, wearing royal 'nemes' headdress ...

With artefacts on loan from the British Museum, this modest show reminds us of the astonishing heritage of a country now ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

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Also influenced by Surrealism is Wassily Kandinsky’s Pointillé (estimate: $250,000 – 350,000). The Russian painter and art ...

In 1631, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I commissioned the Taj Mahal to house the tomb of his favorite wife. With its symmetrical ...