On International Museum Day, HT visits city’s galleries that showcase lives from royal households to how the well-oiled ...

Evan Halleck says pursuing this project is “the most creatively alive” he’s felt since moving to L.A. 12 years ago to start ...

New studies trace the domestication of cats to ancient Egypt, linking their origins to religious rituals and the cult of ...

The new musical from "The Band's Visit" team of David Yazbek, Itamar Moses and director David Cromer is bold, bracing and outrageous.

Early publications from the British Museum described the owner of the coffin as 'The Priestess of Amun Ra', which in folklore is linked to the term 'The Unlucky Mummy'. Now, it's believed that ...

To mark the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum on 3 July, Egyptologist and former minister of antiquities Zahi ...

Unlike the mobile British corpse in “Operation Mincemeat ... He becomes a sideshow attraction, a wax museum exhibit, a lobby display and a prop in exploitation films, until finally what ...

According to the Business Design Centre, the ghost of the Priestess followed a display at the museum on 'The Unlucky Mummy', where a wooden inner coffin board was taken from Egypt to be on display at ...

The British Museum, renowned for its vast and diverse ... a key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs, and several mummies and sarcophagi dominate the Egyptian galleries. French artifacts include ...

These reports inspired a Hollywood film, The Mummy in 1932 ... strong 50 years after the tomb's discovery. In 1972 the British Museum launched an exhibition containing objects from the tomb.

A History of the World in 100 Objects — Making Us Human (2,000,000 - 9000 BC), Mummy of Hornedjitef 1 / 5 Neil MacGregor retells humanity's history through the objects it has made BBC Radio 4 ...