A court ruling in Egypt about St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai has sparked grave concern within the Greek Orthodox Church ...

This picture taken on October 27, 2021, shows a statue—dated to the mid-3rd millennium B.C.—of an ancient Egyptian scribe seated cross-legged, on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Today Egyptian obelisks can be found in New ... Rome’s pope and clergy held a ceremony that placed a Christian cross at the top to mark the ancient obelisk’s new association with Christianity.

Of course, it would not be a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts without mummies ... sitting in the traditional cross-legged pose of scribes with a roll of papyrus spread out over his ...

Building ancient Egypt’s famed pyramids was an enormous ... This is probably due to the fact that the cross-legged sitting or kneeling position was common and natural in the rest of the ...

New research suggests that ancient Egyptian scribes suffered from the effects of long periods sitting cross-legged—as well as gnawing on their pens. The ancient Egyptians documented everything ...

Kinship is the act of returning the ancient body of a mummified man to Egypt. It follows in a series of large-scale art projects created over the past three decades set in extraor ...

Dr Joann Fletcher enters the tomb of an ancient Egyptian architect called Kha. She travels to the Valley of the Kings to meet Steve Cross, who is an expert on tombs. Together they take a look at ...

Archaeologists have uncovered several ancient Egyptian tombs containing dozens of mummies—some of which were found with gold ...