This week, unravel the smells of the ancient past, hear the hidden sounds plants make, look into a potential lunar water source, discover a secret ingredient Leonardo da Vinci used in paintings ...

For the 60th Anniversary of its mummy’s arrival, the museum has had a new exhibit called Discoveries on the Nile: Exploring ...

Cleopatra was using rosewater long before it was bottled in cute glass jars with gold caps. She used it as a facial toner, to balance her skin’s pH and hydrate her complexion. But that’s not all.

Hidden mysteries in ancient Egyptian paintings from the Theban Necropolis observed by in-situ XRF mapping. PLOS ONE, 2023; 18 (7): e0287647 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0287647 ...

The ancient writer Strabo (63 B.C. to A.D. 24), who lived in Alexandria, wrote that Ptolemy XII, the father of Cleopatra, had children through multiple mothers.

Cleopatra VII, who was the last Queen of ancient Egypt's Ptolemaic dynasty, ruled from 51 B.C. until her death in 31 B.C. Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...

Hovering in the background of ancient history’s headlines is King Juba II—writer, explorer, and ruler of Mauretania, the Roman satellite kingdom in North Africa, for almost 50 years until his ...

The Met’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ Reframes Ancient Tragedy Through the Lens of Propaganda John Adams’s opera sizzles and then loses steam in Elkhanah Pulitzer’s 1930s-set production.