Some historians believe that boutonnieres were initially worn by ancient Egyptian sports fans; the tiny flower bouquets represented a person’s favorite team or player. Similar to women who wore ...

Most big collections have only a fraction of their items on display, with the rest locked away in storage. But not at the new ...

It typically takes a while to get checked bags at Cairo International Airport so consider traveling carry-on only, when ...

The V&A East Storehouse is the latest addition to join the London College of Fashion and Sadler’s Wells East in the ‘new’ ...

More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway. Inside the unusuall ...

In many depictions, Nefertiti and Akhenaten are near equals, not just in size, but in posture, dress ... placing an ancient symbol of female power into the hands of a modern public. Today, the coin is ...

Andrews visits an expert modern pleater, George Kalajian of Tom’s Sons International Pleating, a family-run store in New York’s Garment District founded in 1931. Kalajian started learning the trade at ...

As British contemporary art beats all odds to remain a cauldron of inventiveness and passion, Carla Passino discovers which ...

Dead skin cells are a main ingredient in household dust Here’s an interesting (and gross) science fact for you: According to ...

The burials were found within a cemetery now known as Dra Abu el-Naga, which is near modern-day Luxor (ancient Thebes ... a lecturer in Egyptian archaeology at the University of Manchester ...

More and more Egyptian women are joining the labour market according to statistics, but are there enough to bring about equality? Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics ...