No travel destination in the world offers the diversity of Egypt. The country unquestionably belongs to a social and cultural ...

Reflections on resilience: Achill Island in the 1950s was a place where survival depended on resourcefulness, hard work, and the strength of communal bonds. While modern influences gradually reshaped ...

Study shows mummification process left preserved remains smelling sweet and woody In a nutshell Ancient Egyptian mummies emit ...

Valentine’s Day, a celebration of love wrapped in candy hearts, roses and chocolates, traces back to St. Valentine. But the ...

In Autun, France, archaeologists discovered a 1,600-year-old fabric woven with gold threads in an ancient burial site. The fabric, once a symbol of elite aristocracy, was found in a lead coffin, along ...

Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14th and is thought to be connected to the ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia.

Archaeologists have already found more than 200 tombs—and they think that might be just the tip of the iceberg.

Galen, a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher who lived during Roman times, described the heart as the body’s furnace, ...

The story of the origin of Valentine’s Day is shrouded in many myths and legends. According to one version, this day is dedicated to the priest Valentine, who served in Rome in the third century AD, ...

I will leave you with a quote from England’s most famous Elizabethan playwriter, the great William Shakespeare, from his ...

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell 'woody,' 'spicy' and 'sweet', finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and the ...

A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy, herbal and rancid notes, among other ...