Two were lowly midwives named Shifra and Puah. The third was a princess, the daughter of Ramesses II, the most powerful pharaoh in Egyptian history. Their tales begin with a genocidal decree. Pharaoh, ...

This walking tour takes you inside the Louvre Museum to explore its ancient Egyptian collection, including monumental statues ...

The death of Alexander the Great sparked a war for his throne. Contenders included two women, his mother Olympias and his ...

Crocodiles loomed large in the world of the ancient Egyptians. The Nile teemed with the lurking reptiles, and farmers, who made up most of the population, encountered them on a daily basis. While ...

Most research on women in Ancient Greece and Rome concentrate on urban domestic life where there were no references to women ...

The story is told through the eyes of David’s mother, Nitzevet, and traces his journey from a rejected shepherd boy to the servant king he eventually became. Weinreb described it as a story of inner ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...

Researchers have long speculated about the purpose and meaning of pointy “head cones” depicted in Egyptian art. Now they’ve ...

THE cameos they are jewels – in some cases real artistic artefacts – created throughengraving of a shell or layered ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

Ancient Egyptian kingship was rooted in royal blood passed through women. This explores how myth, religion, and lineage ...

Wedding traditions are rooted in superstition, religion and cultural exchange, even as couples continue to reinterpret them ...