This suggests similar alabaster vessels from the time period—often made from soft calcite stone and used for perfumes and ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum's Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, ...

“Our findings, combined with prior research, indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

On the eastern side of the Great Pyramid lies a basalt floor so precisely carved it raises more questions than answers. Could this be evidence of lost technology beyond the reach of tools known to ...

Opium use may have been a “fixture of daily life” for Ancient Egyptians, according to a new study. Experts from the Yale Peabody Museum uncovered traces of the addictive narcotic after becoming ...

History Hit's Tristan Hughes travels to Egypt to explore its extraordinary links to one of the most famous names from antiquity, Alexander the Great. Of all the lands in the Eastern Mediterranean, it ...

The 3,500-year-old artifact, likely stolen from Egypt during the Arab Spring in 2011 or 2012, was found at an elite European ...

Fireworks and drone spectacles lit up the Saharan night above a gala of Egyptian elite, heads of state, and foreign ...

For the first time since the boy king's tomb was discovered in 1922 all the items will stored in one place, a museum director told NBC News.

In the works for decades, the massive, often overwhelming museum has finally opened to the public, displaying a trove of ...

The Netherlands will return a 3,500-year-old sculpture to Egypt three years after the head turned up at an art fair and ...