The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

Archaeologists working in northern Mesopotamia say they have uncovered visual patterns that look a lot like structured ...

In North Africa, Egypt is one of the world's oldest nations, a land where history and modernity collide. From the pyramids of Giza to the Egyptian Museum of Civilisation, from the Citadel of Qaitbay ...

The Eye of Horus, an omnipresent symbol in Ancient Egypt, is often associated with amulets and burials, carrying a spiritual and protective dimension. In Egyptian mythology, Horus, son of Osiris, lost ...

In a celebration of one of Egypt’s oldest and most defining cultural symbols, the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir inaugurated on Tuesday the international art exhibition “From Green Papyrus to Eternal Art.” ...

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines has been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the Nile Delta, a rare find that experts say has also solved a "long-standing ...

We walk you through the incestuous, murderous, and surprisingly relatable world of Egyptian deities at The Met.

Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...