Anchoring the west side of Indianapolis, the White River State Park offers 250 acres of green space dotted with memorials and museums as the Central Canal and the White River offer waterways in ...

The artifacts discovered inside a tomb of 11 Egyptian burials from the height of the country’s Middle Kingdom offer a fresh perspective on the funerary practices from the 12 th and 13 th ...

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Since 1802, the British Museum has housed the Rosetta Stone, the most important source for decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, which was announced by Jean-François Champollion in Paris on 27 ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza has (almost) fully opened to visitors – and pictures reveal that the displays are spectacular. Tourists have had a long wait to get a glimpse behind the doors ...

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The Prime Minister’s Office denied the existence of the hostage deal proposed on Sunday by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a post on Twitter/X on Monday. The Egyptian deal would ...

Chicago’s Field Museum is home to over a dozen ancient Egyptian mummies but one in particular has perplexed researchers for years. Now, the mystery of Lady Chenet-aa’s burial procedure appears ...

Credit: Wikipedia Commons, public domain The Greek alphabet has a long and fascinating history. In fact, its origin goes right back to one of the very earliest writing systems in all of human ...

Dedicated to four eras representing over 700,000 years of history, Cairo's Grand Egyptian Museum is now open to the public, with 12 main galleries ready to offer unprecedented insight into one of the ...