Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Detail from a 16th-century map of the Italian city Civitavecchia, housed at the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican Museum, shows an obelisk’s transfer by boat. The monument was one of two taken from ...

More Than 800 Egyptian Tombs Revealed in Ancient Burial Ground. Described for the first time, the 4,000-year-old "rabbit's warren" represents one of the largest groupings of Middle Kingdom burials.

A 40-mile stretch of a long-gone branch of the Nile may explain why the ancient monuments were built where they were. Children ride a donkey near the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, Egypt ...

The painters of ancient Egypt could not have been more different: Creators of some of the world’s most iconic art, they worked anonymously, continuing a style whose precepts were laid down at ...

ABU ZAWAL, Egypt — If you’re searching for gold in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, you should bring water, a spare tire, an exploration geologist, and a good map. By 10:30 a.m. we’d already made ...

Unearthed at an Egyptian temple, the figure is likely of Egypt's King Ptolemy IV—suggesting a link to Cleopatra's tomb, dig leaders say.