Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

If you ever asked me to define what a pencil is, I might say “Well, it’s a writing or drawing tool with a stick of graphite ...

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

WHEN Joseph Dewey watched his wife Cate walk down the aisle, it was the happiest day of his life. The couple, who had fallen ...

Explore Cairo’s pyramids, bazaars, Nile moments and hidden cultural gems in this complete things to do guide to Egypt’s fascinating capital.

This is borne out by a poem by Hilaire Belloc, an old sailor and poet, who penned “The Microbe,” which begins, “The Microbe ...

In this video, we explore the criticisms and cultural perceptions surrounding the Papyrus typeface. We discuss its origins, created by Chris Costello, and its prevalence in popular media, particularly ...

In a celebration of one of Egypt’s oldest and most defining cultural symbols, the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir inaugurated on Tuesday the international art exhibition “From Green Papyrus to Eternal Art.” ...

The loss of the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge has been mourned for centuries—but Julius Caesar may not really be to blame. The 1876 painting Incendie Alexandrie by Hermann Goll ...

A new study shows ink on 2,000-year-old Egyptian papyri fragments contains copper. This means the assumption that carbon was the only basis for ink to write on ancient papyri is now a thing of the ...