Russian Yuri Knorozov cracked the previously undecipherable Maya code, and remarkably, did it long before he ever visited ...

For months, sentiment in the AI community has been shifting. After years of trailing models like DALL-E, Midjourney, and OpenAI's latest, creators are now saying Google ...

The Armour-Stiner Octagon House in Irvington, New York, is a whimsical example of a 19th-century, eight-sided mansion.

Egypt has said thousands of artefacts can remain in British museums, but renewed its calls for the Rosetta Stone to be ...

Retracing Rizal’s footsteps in Madrid yet again, I do so now imagining him in Madrid in 2025. Would he be posting on Facebook, Instagram, or X? Or would he prefer writing long-form on a blog or ...

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The Temple of Khnum at Esna, about 37 miles south of Luxor, is a late Ptolemaic- and Roman-era site that once stood as one of ...

Some common foods that we have in our pantries can be traced back to ancient times. Take a look at the deep history of our ...

Before the invention of alphabets, literacy was the purview of Egyptian and Mesopotamian scribes trained in complex writing systems that could take years to master. Proto-Sinaitic script, which uses a ...

As the Studio Museum in Harlem opens in its first-ever purpose-built space, a new building by the architects Adjaye Associates, The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief in the Americas, Ben Sutton, speaks ...

An Egyptian lawmaker has called for the ticketing system at the newly opened Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Cairo to be overhauled, claiming that the current approach places Egyptian citizens in a ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). The Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo has been heralded as one of the biggest cultural openings of the year. Located near the Pyramids of ...