Samples of the Black Death, which wiped out as many as 50 million people in medieval Europe, have been found in an ancient Egyptian mummy. The pandemic, also known as bubonic plague, spread ...

“Nefertiti’s bust is so perfect; she’s so self-possessed,” Dr. Cheryl Finley, a professor of art history at Spelman College ...

The design of the letters also confirms this, as they are clearly adaptations of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Scholars now agree that the Proto-Sinaitic script was created by Semites living in Egypt. They ...

Here are 13 of the controversies that entertained, shook and shaped the art world in 2024: For some, the line between modern art and trash is vanishingly thin. Among them was the elevator ...

By Holland Cotter The Metropolitan Museum of Art is, in these darkest days of midwinter, one of the city’s spiritual hot spots, thanks to the harmonic convergence of two outstanding and very ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...

Egyptian authorities have arrested two men for attempting to steal hundreds of ancient artifacts from the bottom of the sea, the country’s interior ministry said in a Monday statement.

Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy. Y. pestis, also known as the ...

When the Egyptian calendar was created around 4,800 ... An example, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, was created for a priest named Amenhotep. The flask contains ...

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As the sun rose over Karnak on this solstice morning, the event reminded onlookers of the enduring brilliance of ancient Egyptian civilization, blending art, science, and spirituality.

Karl Mischke … in discussing the origin of the Arabic numerals, points out that the Roman numerals from 1 to 10 originated from the primitive custom of reckoning on the fingers of the two hands ...