The first mental illness attributed to women, and one of the most prolific for four millennia, was so-called “female hysteria.” An amalgamation of symptoms that would be considered both mood and ...

The 700-year-old scroll by renowned calligrapher Rao Jie fetched over $32 million after a heated bidding battle at Sotheby’s.

Jarvis began by recounting the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s by Bedouin shepherds near the ancient ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

An expert who specialises in the area of ancient manuscripts has claimed an ancient Egyptian scroll provides evidence which ...

The allegations are laid out in a papyrus that was discovered decades ago in the Judean desert but only recently analyzed.

Famous Christian artists Chris Tomlin and Ben Fielding have revived a third century hymn discovered on ancient Egyptian ...

Arguments still rage about how the pyramids were built, but a new discovery has taken giant steps toward the incredible truth ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

Liam McEvoy, a fourth-year UC Berkeley student majoring in anthropology and minoring in Egyptology, has spent much of his time on campus studying the cultural significance of the Egyptian blue ...

It comes just weeks after another major Egyptian discovery, which marked only the second royal tomb found since King Tutankhamun's over 100 years ago. In February, archaeologists uncovered King ...