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 ...

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 ...

Per ancient Egyptian religious practices, most Anubis worshipers lived in Saka, a town in Upper Egypt. In Saka, street dogs were free to roam the streets of the town and the halls of Anubis’ temple.

These Nubian kings left a centuries-long legacy in Egypt These Nubian kings left a centuries-long legacy in Egypt For ancient Egyptians, dance was a huge part of daily life For ancient Egyptians ...

These crocodile mummies are unraveling a mystery. After discovering a trove of mummified crocodiles in Egypt, researchers noticed something unexpected—these reptiles had an unusual embalmment.

Pirates in Egypt. Some of the earliest written accounts of piracy come from Egypt. One of the first is an inscription from the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III (1390-1353 B.C.) that describes having ...

Tombs & temples: Egypt Ancient Egyptian society owed much to the Nile, its fertile banks providing rich farmland, its waters allowing for the construction of vast tombs and temples.

The treaty that drew the first borders of the newly established United States after the Revolutionary War refers to an island that does not exist. The northern boundary of the new nation, the 1783 ...

Ancient Egypt was essentially a man’s world, lorded over by the pharaoh. But at times during its roughly 3,000-year history, women ruled, and six women—Merneith, Neferusobek, Hatshepsut ...

Across the Levant in the 15th century B.C., cities were rising up against freshly-installed pharaoh Thutmose III. It would be the make-or-break test of his new power—and if he could maintain it.