Egyptologist Huub Pragt and Smithsonian Journeys traveler Kellie Mecham share first impressions from their visit to the ...

GEM showcases an estimated 100,000 artifacts including art, objects of daily ... Visitors The entire Children’s Museum is ...

A University of South Florida professor found the first-ever physical evidence of hallucinogens in an Egyptian mug, ...

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

For the first time, researchers were able to see inside the mummies in the Chicago Field Museum's collections. Their findings ...

A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past?

Cleveland Museum of Art is hosting "The Art of Beer" highlighting depictions of beer in art from ancient to 1700s.

Through advanced chemical analyses on an Egyptian vase at the Tampa Museum of Art, Davide Tanasi confirmed the vase last held ...

Ancient Egyptians believed that the ... of his story and his journey.” The museum wants to convey the idea that mummies are people, rather than art objects, Brown said. “We are trying to ...

“Religion is one of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of ancient civilizations,” Tanasi said. “With this study, we’ve ...