A London auction house says there is “no documented evidence” that an intricately carved grasshopper is from the boy king’s ...

Previously, scientists believed that cats became domesticated during the Neolithic period as African wildcats were drawn in ...

A journey through the wonders of ancient Egypt is set to unfold in Hong Kong this winter, bringing over 250 priceless artefacts to the heart of Asia.

How do you carve, transport, and erect a single block statue weighing over 1,000 tons—out of composite quartzite, flint, or granite—using only primitive tools? In this video, we explore the ...

From mid-November onwards, the Hong Kong Palace Museum will host the ‘Ancient Egypt Unveiled: Treasures from Egyptian Museums’ exhibition. Our museum has signed an agreement with the Supreme Council ...

An archaeologist has studied broken statues of Queen Hatshepsut—one of the few women to rule as an Egyptian pharaoh, 4,000 years ago—and found that they were not attacked during the ...

New York's Statue of Liberty is well known as a symbol of refuge for immigrants, but the statue's original design stood for something else.

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered tombs dating back to the New Kingdom period (1550–1070 B.C.) and identified the names and titles of their owners through inscriptions found within ...

A stone head that spent decades gathering dust on a wall has proved to be an Egyptian statue from an ancient tomb. The statue fragment was one of hundreds of pieces, from a fossilised shark tooth ...