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At the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, ‘From Green Papyrus to Timeless Art’ resurrects an ancient medium for writing through the ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

Daniel Antonio McLean still carries a love of his birth country - Venezuela - in his heart, and that shows in how he has shaped his garden at home. When he first moved to this house, the garden was ...

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Egyptian archaeologists located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. They found a “Book of the Dead” papyrus scroll measuring over 43 feet long—a rare ...

The story of the highly skilled workers who helped build Egypt’s Great Pyramid is emerging from a papyrus cache unearthed at the world’s oldest harbor On a summer afternoon around 4,600 years ago, ...

Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum, Italy(Fotonews/Splash News/Corbis) Herculaneum’s Villa of the Papyri was one of the most luxurious Roman properties to have been buried by the eruption of Mount ...

Winter in India always sneaks up on me. One morning, I step outside and the air feels different, crisp enough to wake me, soft enough to make me linger. By afternoon, the sun warms my back just enough ...