As researchers discover overlooked tattoos on mummies from around the world, it's prompting new insights about some of the ...

From China to Greece, these are the superheroes whose origins and power sets are inspired by some of the most fantastic ...

The November edition of Where to Shop, CultureMap's monthly guide to new retail openings and collaborations, highlights ...

Only moving to wipe the moisture off my heated brow in the searing Egyptian sun, I gazed open-mouthed as I stood in front of ...

The touring exhibition shows this ancient culture's skilled craftsmanship, distinct religious beliefs and the important role ...

A circle of figures, cloaked in ritual robes, stands in a clearing as the last light of day disappears behind the trees. A ...

Anticipation is building as Stirling Smith Museum unveils Ancient Sudan: Enduring Heritage — a free British Museum exhibition celebrating ...

The ancient Egyptians ran an efficiently organised health service which was open to everyone, irrespective of wealth or class ...

In the beginning, there were only myths. For the Greeks, the island of Crete was a distant and strange land and yet the site of some their most important traditions: Zeus was taken there to save him ...

This Halloween, we revisit Rhidian Davis’s reckoning with the gothic’s many monstrous manifestations, from silent film to Hammer horror to Twilight. From our November 2013 issue.

Four young Egyptian women, wearing headscarves, leggings and boxing gloves, punch and kick each other, encouraged by their ...

Two young Egyptian women whose jail sentences for posting on TikTok were overturned earlier this week will have to stay in prison for another two weeks and face human trafficking charges, a lawyer ...