When the English archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the royal tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt in November 1922, it took fully eight days to unwrap the mummified body of the young king from 16 layers ...

Archaeologists in Autun, France, found rare fabric fragments, including a large purple piece, woven with gold threads in several ancient tombs. Photo from Lucie Marquat / Inrap Archaeologists in ...

Rachel Newcomb is an anthropologist and the Diane and Michael Maher distinguished professor of teaching and learning at Rollins College. She is the author of “Everyday Life in Global Morocco.” Most of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It takes a cool head, not just a steady hand, to weave the finest yarns. But when the “fabric” is made from ...

Flipping through a good design book should be an immersive experience; the best ones make you itch to slip into the pictures, pad barefoot over the plush rug, brush fingers across the velvet ...

Archaeologists in central France looked inside the ancient sarcophagus they’d recently unearthed. Something across the top of the burial seemed to glint in the sun. It turned out to be a ...