People have been painting their nails for thousands of years. Both women and men. According to the National Museum of African ...

Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...

For more than a century, a cluster of alabaster jars from the burial of Tutankhamun sat in museum cases as some of the most puzzling objects from the boy king’s tomb. Now a new wave of scientific ...

King Tut’s alabaster jars have long held mystery. A new Yale study finds chemical evidence suggesting they once contained ...

A curated list of 25 remarkable books published in 2025 spotlighting resistance, memory, identity, and the human stories ...

As winter settles in and the year winds down, there’s no better time to curl up with a book that speaks to the complexity and beauty of queer life. This season’s reading list spans ...

Dozens of research articles from 1999–2024 mention early Babylonians using fingerprint biometrics, despite no evidence ...

Far from the baby-cheeked cherubs of Renaissance art, they were fiery beings who inspired fear.

CAIRO (AP) — A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh was put on display Tuesday in the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall while being reassembled in real time. The cedarwood boat, one of two that ...

In the 4th century BC, Greece, the art of painting was often seen as a mere craft, until Pamphilus of Amphipolis came along.

Ancient Nubians who lived between the 7th and 9th centuries tattooed the cheeks and foreheads of their infants and toddlers.