There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

Because these objects are anchored to specific historical contexts, their ages provide a reliable snapshot of the period. The ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

As the world celebrates the 100th anniversary of the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the memorial to another King Tut lies forgotten in the backyard of a Washington ...

How a booming smuggling market led a 15-ton iron space rock to be stolen, sold by terrorists and hidden somewhere in China ...

Philip Breckner, Discover Egypt director, said: “With the GEM now fully open, Egypt has entered a new chapter. The museum is ...

For three years after his 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb, archaeologist Howard Carter did not think much about an undecorated wooden box that turned out to contain two small resin-covered ...

Dating back to the reign of Amenhotep III, who ruled over Egypt between 1391 and 1353 BC, Aten is the largest ancient ...

The 1st-century luxury vessel matches the description given by the Greek historian Strabo, who visited the city of Alexandria ...

Some locations carry a reputation that makes people uneasy before they even arrive. The stories tied to them come from ...