When Napoleon's army accidentally stumbled upon a large stone covered in ancient text in 1799 in Egypt, they could not have known that the artifact would go on to become one of the most important ...

A stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments that was carved anywhere between 300 to 800 A.D. will go on the block at Sotheby’s next week and is expected to fetch up to $2 million, the auction ...

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Thomas Couture, “Portrait de jeune femme assise [Portrait of a seated young woman]” (image courtesy Bundes Kunsthall) Daniel Ridgway Knight, “On the Terrace, Rolleboise” (image courtesy Rehs Galleries ...

When the Amarna Letters were first discovered in Egypt, many scholars thought they were fake. They were not written on papyrus, but clay tablets—a material that wasn’t used in the region. Nor were ...

Archaeologists working in northern Egypt uncovered a tablet rivaling the Rosetta Stone in its importance to decoding ancient language. Trnava University via Unsplash When Napoleon’s army accidentally ...