This year has seen a number of artifacts recovered from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt. The area has attracted ...

There was no one type of slavery in ‘biblical’ or ‘ancient’ societies, given how varied they were. But much of what ...

Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza were built to endure an eternity, but how remains one of the ancient world’s greatest mysteries.

The tomb of a high-ranking ancient Egyptian woman has been found thousands of years after her death, the Egyptian Ministries of Tourism and Antiquities has announced ...

A 4,000-year-old handprint has been found on an ancient Egyptian tomb offering by curators preparing for an exhibition. The ...

In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time when the ...

Researchers have unveiled an ancient Egyptian handprint that was left on a soul house tomb offering 4,000 years ago.

The soul house, which dates to around 2055 to 1650 B.C.E., was originally excavated at Deir Rifa, a series of ancient Egyptian cemeteries north of Luxor, on the west bank of the Nile, the Art ...

People today ring in the new year with parties, fireworks and Champagne toasts, but the ancient Egyptians also celebrated the new year and even had festivities by the Pyramids of Giza.

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA sequencing reveals how these two populations also intermingled.