The Grand Egyptian Museum is set to open in its entirety — from pyramid views to Tutankhamun’s treasures, here’s what you can ...

The history and character of ancient Greece were strongly influenced by its physical geography. From mountain ranges to vast ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals the sacred site's unexpected connection to ancient mythology and forgotten river channels.

"Divine Egypt," a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, features nearly 250 artifacts representing the rich ...

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

Archaeologists identified the tomb owners by reading titles carved on walls and lintels. The names are Amun-em-Ipet from the ...

Once flooded by the Nile, Karnak Temple may have been built on a natural island shaped by shifting waters—chosen to reflect ...

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.

Five hundred meters east of today’s Nile, in the city of ancient Thebes, rises one of Egypt’s greatest and most enduring ...

Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of ...