Evan Halleck says pursuing this project is “the most creatively alive” he’s felt since moving to L.A. 12 years ago to start ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

With 120,000 artifacts, the Egyptian Museum is a must-visit place. It allows you to look back in history with the real ...

Talking to The Telegraph after his second barbarous bout of cancer, the 84-year-old is as trenchant as ever on politics, the ...

The 18th-century mummy of Franz Xaver Sidler, dubbed the "Air-Dried Chaplain," was preserved using a unique embalming ...

The long-dead vicar, who passed away in 1746, has an unusual embalming method to thank for his extraordinary durability. But ...

The next day, we went to Giza to see the pyramids as well as the Sphinx. It was so surreal to be in the vicinity of both of ...

I first became fascinated by death when I was 8 and my mummy took me to the British Museum ... last in the bosom of your family. And except in Egypt and Rome, where the death industry was lively ...

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A stunning discovery of mummified lion cubs and other animals in the Saqqara necropolis offers a glimpse into ancient Egyptian ritualistic practices. A groundbreaking archaeological discovery has been ...

A newly unearthed settlement in Egypt’s north-western Nile Delta dates back around 3,400 years to the New Kingdom era and features a temple believed to have been dedicated to Pharaoh Ramesses II.

Hordes of “soldiers” representing the Egyptians and the Hittites charged at each other, only to fall to the ground in mock death. This Thursday afternoon clash was not real warfare. Instead, it was a ...