In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

In his cozy workshop behind his D.C. home, contemporary kumiko craftsman David Gootnick, a Craft Show featured artist, uses the raw material of his practice: a five-foot-long, two-inch-thick plank of ...

In the heart of the Arizona desert lies Painted Rock—a site etched with centuries of Native American petroglyphs. These mysterious symbols tell stories of life, travel, and belief carved into stone.

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

Little is known about the "lost" dynasty that ruled at Abydos during this time, and it seems only Senebkay was recorded in the traditional lists of ancient Egyptian kings. The newfound tomb at ...

The country’s modern culture is permeated with traditions that date back thousands of years. This blend of ancient and contemporary is evident in everything from music, art, and architecture to ...

Art Deco may be hard to define, but you know it when you see it. Its architecture is at once angular—associated with shapes ...

In Egypt and across the Arab world, henna rituals—once sacred ceremonies imbued with spiritual meaning—have transformed into ...

Passover, the traditional spring holiday, beckons with its spread of cultural and leisure time events up and down the country ...

Larger-than-life scenes carved on each of its exterior walls offered ancient worshippers ... Ptolemaic and Roman periods, Egyptians continued to worship their traditional gods even as foreign ...

Two studies that examined these clay objects, until now thought to be the bases for other elements, argue that they were ...

In particular, the project focuses on deciphering the names of associated ancient Egyptians, fulfilling the ancient aspiration of "causing their names to live." The talk will see Dr Ken Griffin, who ...