In ancient Egypt, a humble dung beetle became one of the most powerful signs of hope: a promise that life could begin again. According to Kholoud Mohamed Shawky, a classicist from Alexandria, Egypt, ...

The Indus Valley civilisation left no temples or tombs, like the Pyramids of Egypt. There are also no remains of great statues of kings or gods. Instead the Indus Valley’s cultural legacy is of small ...

Make learning history fun by playing these interactive, fun and free-to-play history games from BBC Bitesize designed to test your history knowledge and skills. There are new and popular history games ...

In an exhibition on ancient Egyptian-inspired fashion at the Cleveland Museum of Art, a relief depicts the wife of Amenhotep wearing a kalasiris, or long linen dress, juxtaposed with a white jersey ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery. While other ...

The indomitable Lady Columbia defends the United States with her snazzy patriotic shield, c. 1890. Library of Congress The first and longest-ruling mascot of the United States made her debut before ...