After decades of working in parallel worlds of sculpture and fiction, Barbara Chase-Riboud is achieving deserved worldwide ...

In Konstantin Flavitsky’s vivid 1855 painting, we witness the moment Joseph’s brothers sell him into slavery — a scene from ...

Martin Kemp, one of the world’s leading experts on the polymath, provides a personal guide to all 17 existing paintings—from ...

On International Museum Day, HT visits city’s galleries that showcase lives from royal households to how the well-oiled ...

Our pick of the best exhibitions to see in London's galleries and museums opening in June 2025, plus a couple of cheeky ...

Turns out, one of ancient Egypt’s most treasured healing plants ... Traditional methods like gentle water infusions, wine infusions, or oil preparations extract the plant’s properties in ...

We learn that it’s not just the overwhelmingly White and male field of Classics that is to blame for the lack of attention paid to the everyday workers of Ancient Egypt and Rome, but also the ...

A 40-mile stretch of a long-gone branch of the Nile may explain why the ancient monuments were built where they were. Children ride a donkey near the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt.

Set in a fantastical version of ancient Egypt where gods and mortals coexist, the story follows Bek (Brenton Thwaites), a human, embarking on a perilous journey to save his beloved, Zaya (Courtney ...

Leave historians and researchers to grapple with those questions. You can just sit back and enjoy these 15 images of ancient Egypt from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest.

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists in Egypt are unraveling the secrets of an ancient military site used during the Ptolemaic dynasty and the Roman era. The fortress ...

Van Eyck’s 1434 The Arnolfini Marriage Portrait took on the title as the world’s first masterpiece in oils, and the artist has been memorialized as the “father of oil painting.” ...