The culture of the ancient Egyptian people is considered one of the oldest and most influential in human history. Ancient Egyptian civilization began over 5,000 years ago, founded on exceptional ...

Karnak Temple in Luxor Egypt Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Abrilla The Pyramids of Egypt have been greeting the rising sun for over 5000 years and the Horemakhet (Great Sphinx), for over 8000 years ...

The popular perception of Western history is that humans have grown less puritanical over time; compare, for instance, how the sight of an ankle (on a man or woman) was considered shocking in 18th and ...

(Reuters) -DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing evidence of the ties between two great cultures of the period, ...

The study of celestial objects ran throughout ancient Egyptian culture. Religious events were fixed by the movements of the sun and moon, star charts were carved into the lids of tombs, and the ...

The Bucket List This moment from The Bucket List is more than a reflection on mortality — it’s a meditation on how we live.

April 1941: A man raises a glass of beer, sitting between two women at a table inside an African-American tavern, Chicago, Illinois. The women have beer and small plates of food in front of them.

The modern desire overlaps with the ancient Egyptians’ longing for immortality. In the Giza Desert southwest of Cairo, Egypt.

A mummified shrew found at Quesna suggests that ancient Egypt’s environment was once more wet than it is now. Abigail Eisenstadt Researchers study burial sites like the Falcon Necropolis at Quesna to ...