Egyptologists announced in 2022 that they had found the mummy and tomb of Nefertiti. There's been no word since then. What's ...

Selected by David Cannadine, the author of “Queen Elizabeth II: A Concise Biography of an Exceptional Sovereign.” ...

Years after Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette met their fates at the guillotine, Karl-Wilhelm Naundorff convinced members of the ...

Archaeologists have long puzzled over the elegant stone jars buried with Tutankhamun, their inscriptions intact but their ...

On Jan. 3, 1924, two years after rediscovering the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt, Howard Carter and his workers found ...

“Our findings combined with prior research indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

King Charles III is royally unhappy about chatter surrounding Prince William’s succession. The monarch specifically has reportedly “not [been] thrilled” by speculation that his elder son is running ...

This redefines “high” society in ancient Egypt. Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was widespread in the land of ...

For more than a century, a mystery has surrounded the alabaster jars found in King Tut’s tomb. Carved from Egyptian calcite and still stained with dark, sticky residues, the vessels have long posed a ...

The Bayeux Tapestry, a 230-foot-long linen cloth crafted in the eleventh century, depicts scenes from William the Conqueror’s invasion of England and his defeat of Harold Godwinson, England’s last ...