After days inside Egypt’s ancient temples, patterns begin to emerge. Certain features repeat, while others defy easy explanation. This trip wasn’t about ticking boxes — it was about looking closely ...

Julia Thrift reviews the current exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum, which charts the abiding fascination British ...

J K Dadoo writes that ancient India, through trade, religion and knowledge networks, shaped global civilisation as the world’s central intellectual and philosophical power ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...

A 2,000-year-old shipwreck found off the coast of Alexandria is offering a rare look into ancient Egypt’s elite watercraft, ...

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Despite sitting on the seafloor two millennia off the coast of Alexandria, still visible on the boat’s timber was graffiti ...

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Reliefs of decans (left), Esna, Egypt; Sagittarius relief (center) before restoration, Esna, Egypt; Sagittarius relief (right) after restoration, Esna, Egypt For centuries, layers of soot have coated ...

Egypt has unveiled two colossal statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in Luxor. The alabaster statues, known as the Colossi of ...