Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country and alongside Mesopotamia was a part of the Fertile Crescent which is ...

WASHINGTON -- Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to ...

Boasting King Tut's treasures and countless other riches, anticipation for the Grand Egyptian Museum mounts as delays thwart ...

Scientists just confirmed a 30-foot void first detected inside the monument years ago. Here’s the technology that helped scientists find it—and what it may have been used for.

In 1954, a curious structure was discovered in the northwest of the island of Sardinia, near the town of Porto Torres: a massive stone platform whose oldest parts date from around 4000–3650 BCE, that ...

Some 2.5 million people visit the Pyramids of Giza each year with hopes of an epic experience befitting one of the World’s Seven Wonders. But for decades, a trip to Egypt’s most famous tourist ...

Eldest sons in top place This means that the Egyptian "eldest sons" held a great deal of power. "I sometimes say that Egypt was quite literally a patriarchy," says Van Gompel.

The ancient Ho-Chunk, who also inhabited modern-day Illinois and elsewhere, then turned to the arrow-straight elm, despite its unyielding, hardwood structure.

A joint Egyptian-German mission has made an unprecedented discovery of eight previously undocumented storage chambers – or magazines – within Sahure’s Pyramid in the Abusir Necropolis south ...