The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations. Favored with an ...

At the site of Tombos, archaeologists have found that less-affluent laborers may be buried with upper-class people in pyramid ...

Adorned with tall, slender pyramids, the wealthy Nile city of Meroë was the seat of power of Kush, an ancient kingdom and rival to Egypt. Kushite culture blended Egyptian customs into its own ...

These ancient canvases represent some of the oldest historical records of any group of people in the world According to Aboriginal belief, ancestral spirits assumed human forms thousands of years ...

The Penn Museum is currently undergoing its largest renovation in the museum’s history. The Penn Museum’s renovations in the Ancient Egypt and Nubia Galleries are the second part of the Penn Museum’s ...

The leaders of most modern countries exploit a powerful political tool - the power of images. These techniques, in fact, were invented thousands of years ago by the leaders of the Ancient World.