Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

Maynard Owen Williams was National Geographic's first foreign correspondent, and in 1923 he was on hand for an event the ...

The fortress covers approximately 8,000 square meters, making it three times larger than a previously discovered fortress at the same site from the 1980s. Tourism and Antiquities Minister Sherif Fathy ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 27 coffins at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, a burial ground that is also home to one of the world's oldest pyramids, the ministry of tourism and ...

A granite inscription tells us that for seven years during the reign of the ancient Egyptian king Djoser, the Nile failed to go through its annual flooding cycle, causing a devastating drought and ...

Egypt is building two highways across the pyramids plateau outside Cairo, reviving and expanding a project that was suspended in the 1990s after an international outcry.

A once-in-a-decade exhibition of ancient deities — many are goddesses — ranging over more than 3,000 years, from monumental ...

These talented craftspeople specialized in ceramics, sculpture, jewelry, stonemasonry, coffin decorating and other art forms ...

The ancient art of bonsai may look deceptively simple, but its practice requires care, contemplation, and consistency over long periods of time—especially if you’re growing an entire miniature forest, ...

About 2,000 years later, Martínez recruited the help of a very well-known name in regards to underwater discoveries– Dr.

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered the text on the Rosetta stone, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization. The stone had been ...

Kathleen Martínez has spent two decades searching for the Egyptian queen’s resting place – her determination may have paid off ...