Some 40 km away, four caves of the Shengjinkou Grottoes in Turpan also opened to the public on Saturday, set to offer 300 ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) is home to one of the world’s most spectacular collections of art, sculpture, ...

The rotation of the moon and other planets provides a natural rhythm and framework for understanding time, nature and human ...

Over time, the two instruments developed differently according to their cultural contexts. Over centuries, the sheng became a ...

From prehistoric paths dating back to the Neolithic period to walking routes used by Buddhist monks and tea merchants, these ...

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Before archaeologists confirmed the discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II last month, more than a century had passed since Howard Carter and a team of Egyptian laborers unearthed the tomb of ...

the falcon-headed sky-god. I was a weird kid. I wanted to become an Egyptologist, and eventually write a book on Egyptian mythology. I was about 12 at the time, so I really was a weird kid. As I grew ...

A significant archaeological find has been made in the ancient Egyptian city of Taposiris Magna ... who was deeply connected to the goddess Isis. Artifacts found at the site, such as coins depicting ...

The gods and goddesses are celebrated, thanked, and honored, and every other word we can use to describe how important their presence was to the everyday life of Egyptians at that time.

The statues of Egyptian gods Amun, Mut, and Khonsu may have been worn as amulets. Despite their hierarchical society, jewelry was for everyone in ancient Egypt. The poorest farmers and the richest ...