As anyone who’s seen a mummy knows, ancient Egyptian priests went to a lot of trouble to evade decomposition. But how successful were they? Len Bloch details the mummification process and examines its results thousands of years later.

Death Whistles, Terrifying instruments of religion and war, were used by Ancient Aztecs to summon spirits and create horror and fear wherever they went.

The Royal Game of Ur is a two-player strategy race board game of the tables family that was first played in ancient Mesopotamia during the early third millennium BC.

Searching for a recipe this Thanksgiving? Check out this Ancient Recipes With Sohla compilation that'll help you get ready to cook!

The Rosetta Stone is one of the most famous objects in the British Museum. But what is it? What does it actually say?

How did we really decipher the Ancient Egyptian language? Was the discovery of the Rosetta Stone crucial to cracking hieroglyphs? And who was the first person to decode it?

Ötzi, also called the Iceman, is the natural mummy of a man who lived some time between 3350 and 3105 BC, discovered in September 1991 in the Ötztal Alps on the border between Austria and Italy.

Get ready to indulge in some Medieval Pleasures. In this three-part series, historian Dr Eleanor Janega takes us on a journey into the sumptuous world of Sex, Booze and Sport throughout the Medieval period.

Crime and punishment in ancient Egypt could often be grisly and painful. But perhaps the harshest punishment of all was that which would rob you of your peace in the afterlife. Is this decapitated mummy the victim of such a fate? Doctor Joann Fletcher inv...

Alexandria, a royal Greek city in the land of the Pharaohs. Along the sandy banks of the Nile delta on the African Mediterranean coast, the most powerful metropolis of its time rose from virtually nothing. The Hellenistic culture mingled with the legacy o...

Queen Nefertiti was once the most beautiful and powerful woman in Egypt, renowned throughout the ancient world. But she vanished without a trace, lost to the sands of Egypt for more than 3,000 years.

Nefertari - one of ancient Egypt's most renowned and mysterious Queens. The wife of Ramses II, Nefertari quickly established herself as the great Pharaoh’s favorite wife. But what was life like as an Egyptian Queen, and why do some theorise Nefertari was...

Within the original cultures of Australia, a story is told, called Dreamtime, reflecting the world at the time of colonization of the continent and it uses the constellations of Orion and Pleiades to tell it's story of hunters chasing women.

Edinburgh, Scotland is a metropolis, but take a look into its past, and you'll find it has led a double life. A sophisticated and educated surface city evolved above while a darker world grew below.

Wondrous wizards... Mysterious sorcerers... And heavenly beings... possessed of unimaginable power. Throughout the ancient world, magic was used for everything from healing to communicating with the gods.