Kamal’s dictionary was completed 100 years ago, earning him the title Pasha, awarded by King Fouad. However, he died shortly ...

Taking time off in the summer was important in ancient Greek and Roman times. But some found it hard to detach from work and ...

The chamber holds a stone coffin engraved with the physician’s name and titles, which include "director of medicinal plants" and "chief dentist" Sonja Anderson Piece by piece, experts carefully ...

The Rosetta Stone is widely considered one of archaeology's most significant finds. A decree from Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy V ...

Samples of the Black Death, which wiped out as many as 50 million people in medieval Europe, have been found in an ancient Egyptian mummy. The pandemic, also known as bubonic plague, spread ...

Lots of ancient Greek records contain stories about how they got their alphabet ... The design of the letters also confirms this, as they are clearly adaptations of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Scholars now ...

The Civilization of Ancient Egypt" at the Shanghai Museum, where many examples of ancient cat imagery are on display ...

ABSTRACT: Tibetan medicine is an important part of traditional Chinese medicine, boasting a long history and a unique theoretical system. With the development of globalization, Tibetan medicine faces ...

Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy. Y. pestis, also known as the ...

Karl Mischke … in discussing the origin of the Arabic numerals, points out that the Roman numerals from 1 to 10 originated from the primitive custom of reckoning on the fingers of the two hands ...