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 ...

It is typical to crave a tropical destination when trying to survive the last few months of winter, but skiers know that springtime is the best-kept secret in the sport. With fewer crowds, soft snow, ...

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 ...