Scientists just confirmed a 30-foot void first detected inside the monument years ago. Here’s the technology that helped scientists find it—and what it may have been used for.

It’s part of the 10th- or 11th-century A.D. Codex Climaci Rescriptus, a collection of parchments from St. Catherine’s monastery in Egypt with monastic writings in Syriac, an ancient language ...

The map that NASA launched in 1972 ... Polaris will no longer be the North Star, just as it was not the polestar for ancient Egyptian ... “I’m a contributing writer with National Geographic ...

An Egyptian capital and thriving commercial center. The riches uncovered from the ancient city of Tanis, located on the Nile Delta northeast of Cairo, include a royal tomb complex filled with ...

Kharga is the “Little Italy” of ancient Egypt. The Romans conquered the oasis as a strategic trading route, and Kharga today still exudes the glory of the Roman Empire.

The announcement comes weeks after the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the unusual discovery of a false door at an ancient Egyptian tomb. Before that, the ministry reported ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb ...

A map of ancient Greece. Public Domain. A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by researchers at the National and Kapodistrian ...

Egypt map with long shadow on blank background - Flat Design White map of Egypt isolated on a gray background with a long shadow effect and in a flat design style. Vector Illustration (EPS10, well ...

A map of the dynasties and temples of ancient Egypt. Illustration by NG MAPS, JON BOWEN Ancient Egypt fell to invaders in the late 18th century B.C., an event described by Egyptian scholar Manetho ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think.

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 ...