A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past?

Professor Joann Fletcher of the University of York told History Hit audiences that the Tutankhamun's ears are an "overlooked" ...

[Photo provided by The Trustees of British Museum] In the royal palaces of Assyrian kings, art served one ultimate ... multiple cultural influences — Egyptian style, for example — in their ...

Restoration work at the site of a "key" ancient Egyptian temple is revealing long-hidden colorful details in its decorations. The Temple of Esna, located on the west bank of the Nile over 30 miles ...

Shortly past 11 a.m., director and Margaret Alkek Williams Chair Gary Tinterow breezed into a preview for "Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs and People," which opens within the Caroline Wiess Law ...

In the northeastern corner of Qatar, lies Al Jassasiya, the country's largest and most significant rock art site. This barren desert landscape is home to approximately 900 ancient rock carvings ...

The Roman-era temple of Esna, 60 kilometers south of Luxor in Egypt, is undergoing extensive restoration work in an Egyptian-German cooperation project ... In one scene - an offering of bow and arrow ...

If you've ever thought that people nowadays are a bit obsessed with cats, allow me to (re)introduce you to ancient Egyptian culture. Cats are reverently depicted throughout thousands of years of ...

My idea - and taste - of leaf-wrapped cooking technique was then limited to whatever was rustled in our ancestral kitchen, but leaves have been part of the Indian culinary tradition for centuries. ...

Some social media users have drawn parallels between the dog and Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god often depicted with a jackal’s head. As the god of the afterlife and protector of graves ...

Some online commentators worried about the pup’s well-being, some took the opportunity to crack jokes and others drew a connection between the stray and Anubis, the Egyptian god of the dead ...

Here are some of the Internet's best reactions: Some, according to Mosher, thought the dog could have been “physical embodiment of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of the dead who’s often ...