This statue is one of many artefacts pulled from below the waves near Alexandria and may have belonged to the ancient city of ...

For ancient people, Canopus was a place of pilgrimage. Countless people travelled to the sanctuaries of the Egyptian gods ...

While adornments in the shape of letters go back to ancient Egypt, experts say the style has hit new heights in recent years.

Today a desert—as far as the eye can see. However, anyone looking more closely will discover hundreds of images carved into ...

Several large sculptures were among the trove of artifacts that divers recovered from the waters near Alexandria, Egypt.

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

In a new study published in L'Antropologie, Dr. Shirin Torkamandi and his colleagues, Dr. Marcel Otte and Dr. Abbas Motarjem ...

Ancient written languages emerged as a revolutionary development in human history, allowing civilizations to record important ...

Discovered in the Givati parking lot of Jerusalem, the coin was minted for Queen Berenice II, wife of the Hellenistic ruler ...

The Djed pillar is one of ancient Egypt’s most mysterious symbols. Some see it as pure mythology, others as a clue to ...

Ancient Egyptians once worshipped crocodiles, offering them bread, meat and wine, and also sacrificing and mummifying them.