At the end of the twentieth century, Chaim Grade preserved the memory of a Jewish tradition besieged by the forces of ...

Tutankhamun ruled ancient Egypt shortly after a period of religious instability, and objects from his tomb suggest he took ...

The handful animal ghosts in the ancient world are often depicted not as friendly visitors but as mere tools for humans – and ...

Ma’at was a fundamental concept in ancient Egyptian society. It can be understood as “the rightness of things” and was a ...

We are used to seeing dead bodies in movies and TV shows, but how should we feel when presented with a dead person from the ...

Investigating a burial site at the ancient village of Tombos, archaeologists have re-written their own rule book when it ...

The papyrus of Senemnetjer is among the earliest known examples of this funerary text, which was used to guide the soul of ...

Researchers discovered a royal tomb that is over 3,600 years old in Abydos, Egypt. The entryway of the tomb was decorated ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of an Egyptian army where an Israelite king was killed. The discoveries at Megiddo, ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s an Ancient Game Night, “Ouroboros” and “¡A Bailar!” ...

Egyptologists think that these riotous rituals were fueled by wine that had been infused with psychedelic blue lotus.

Our modern world is built on the remains of the past. Sometimes people find unexpected bodies in surprising places, all with ...