Serop Simonian was allowed to leave Paris and return to his hometown of Hamburg following a French magistrate’s decision that ...

Since the late 1800s, women have studied Ancient Egypt, but it wasn't always easy to enter the profession. Here are 8 ...

A new study underscores the ubiquity of pleasant smells attached to commonly displayed objects, like sarcophagi and wrappings used in mummified remains.

Ziv Nitzan, a 3½-year-old girl, found a 3,800-year-old scarab amulet during a trip to Tel Azeka, near Beit Shemesh, in Israel ...

After surrendering scores of art works thought looted, the museum is looking to its new head of provenance research to police its acquisitions and review its collection.

The film *Digging Into the Past: Egyptian Excavations of the Metropolitan Museum of Art* showcases fascinating footage of archaeological work in Egypt during the 1920s. Egyptian workers are seen ...

I went to Boston by myself last weekend for a family gathering, and on the way there, I felt as if I was on some kind of magical trek. The sun was shining, the flight was on time and we didn’t crash.

The breed of this sculpted dog is also unclear. Ancient Egyptians tended to prefer energetic dog breeds, and the ones often ...

(JTA) — The first time an account sharing items held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art tweeted a picture that appeared unmistakably to Jewish followers to be a ritual object used in Jewish ...

The 83-year-old dealer sold allegedly smuggled Egyptian antiquities to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the ...