Now’s your chance to tour ancient Egypt for much less than the price of a plane ticket. On Wednesday, Google Maps announced its latest accomplishment in its quest to map the entire planet with its ...

Ancient Egyptians traded with people in what is today coastal Eritrea to bring baboons to their temples, according to a new study of baboon mummy DNA. Though Punt was mentioned in ancient Egyptian ...

The abiding influence of ancient Egypt on the world’s cultures is explored in the newest exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. “Echoes of Egypt: Conjuring the Land of the Pharaohs” ...

Scientists have discovered a long-buried branch of the Nile river that once flowed alongside more than 30 pyramids in Egypt, potentially solving the mystery of how ancient Egyptians transported the ...

Discover the ancient stone vessels carved with a level of precision modern experts struggle to replicate. These artifacts ...

Ancient pollen and charcoal preserved in deeply buried sediments in Egypt's Nile Delta document the region's ancient droughts and fires, including a huge drought 4,200 years ago associated with the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the ancient remains of a girl, two animal heads and three ceramic vessels near a roughly 4,600 year-old pyramid in Egypt, the country's Ministry of Antiquities reported.

Egyptian officials announced Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last of the lost tombs of the kings of ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, which reigned for over two centuries ...