An exhibition of 3,000-year-old artefacts at Battersea power station gives Egypt’s most ambitious, self-aggrandising pharaoh a chance to emerge from Tutankhamun’s shadow ...

The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of antiquity.

Assuming that this is all 100% real, it implies that the next God of War title — again, the one that Cory Barlog and his team's been working on since before Ragnarok's release — is going to be ...

During the Second World War, one particular insect became the scourge of soldiers and citizens alike. Called the London Underground mosquito, this mosquito liked to feast on Londoners escaping German ...

The Ramses and the Pharaohs' Gold exhibition brings the treasures of Ancient Egypt's most powerful pharaoh to London. Here's our review.

The 20th-century art historian Kenneth Clark made a distinction between the “naked,” meaning unclothed and ashamed, and the ...

The backstory: The collection of 19 manuscripts written on scrolls of papyrus and linen fragments are fragile, with one of ...

With a title that conjures the possibility of Indiana Jones tumbling in through a trapdoor somewhere, Ramses and the Pharaohs ...

Inside the dusty shell of one of the oldest libraries in the Palestinian territories, a group of Gazan volunteers work diligently to salvage what remains of their ancient cultural heritage. The Great ...

In the city of Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka stands an engineering monument built more than 1,700 years ago and considered the ...

Early European hunter-gatherers developed a sophisticated method of information storage long before the advent of formal ...

Inside, the usual Purim noise gave way to the familiar silence of waiting. When the all-clear finally came, people did what they had learned to do over the past days. They stepped back out and ...