The Grand Egyptian Museum is finally opening. We meet the CEO of Atelier Brückner, Shirin Frangoul-Brückner, who took on ...

After the artifact went missing from Cairo's Egyptian Museum in early September, authorities began carefully tracking down ...

In modern Iraq, the ruins of ancient Babylon have witnessed epochs of historic turmoil. They now face an uncertain future, ...

Why are some people fiery and impulsive while others are calm and measured? The ancient Greeks believed they had the answer, ...

The bracelet, described as a golden band adorned with "spherical lapis lazuli beads," belonged to King Amenemope, a pharaoh ...

Alexandria overshadowed Pergamon, yet the Anatolian library rivaled Egypt in scrolls, scholarship, and parchment, shaping the ...

Booking a last-minute getaway? The best cities to visit right now can be found in the Netherlands, Germany and Croatia. This ...

Smyrna was one of the most illustrious ancient and Hellenistic-era Greek cities, one of the main centers of Greek culture in ...

The heirs of their original owner (Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, from a prominent Jewish family) claimed the paintings were ...

Students in one of Hiram’s Urgent Challenges Seminars, “Why Do Objects Matter?,” recently had the opportunity to engage directly with history during a special classroom visit from an education ...

In 1957, the first fragments of statues were discovered at Sperlonga, Emperor Tiberius's pleasure palace from the first ...