In July 2018, archaeologists in Alexandria, Egypt, cracked open a colossal 27-tonne black granite sarcophagus at an under-construction site. This huge.

A study combining the growing number of ancient genomes from living people has given us our best picture yet of how humans have evolved over the past 10,000 years or so. It shows that people in ...

A new study of ancient Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings found dozens of inscriptions left there by Indian tourists 2,000 years ago.

I’ve never quite understood why tourists can’t help but write things like, “Gayoung was here.” But archaeological records ...

Zamna Festival Egypt blends electronic music with the iconic Great Pyramids of Giza, drawing global travellers for a surreal cultural experience.

But it is the art of the Amarna period that has left the most indelible mark on history. Unlike the idealized, rigid, and muscular depictions of previous pharaohs, Akhenaten ordered his artisans to ...

Two researchers discuss how ancient DNA is used to track how people moved and lived during Britain's bronze age.

If someone told you there’s an authentic Egyptian temple in San Jose filled with mummies and ancient treasures, you’d ...

In reliefs and monuments spanning 3,000 years, the pharaoh holds the heka in his left hand, resting it upon his shoulder. The image encodes a specific claim: Pharaoh is the shepherd of his people; he ...

Archaeologists have opened a tomb that remained sealed for nearly 2,600 years, offering a rare look into ancient burial ...

Human rights activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has said that Africa, particularly Black people, once possessed vast knowledge and ...

As Bar Ilan University professor Joshua Berman engagingly and convincingly demonstrates in his “Echoes of Egypt” Haggadah, the process by which the Passover story took shape was as a polemic against ...