A joint mission between German and Egyptian archaeologists has uncovered a centuries-old mastaba during an excavation in Dahshur, close to the Great Pyramid of Giza. Mastabas are a type of ancient ...

In recent years, Egyptologists’ understanding of the period of stability and prosperity that emerged at the end of the 4th millennium B.C.E. known as the Old Kingdom has begun to change. Excavations ...

Got a plague of serpents? Call this guy. Swiss-French archaeologists have uncovered the 4,100-year-old tomb in Egypt that belonged to a royal physician with a very special skill: protecting them from ...

A routine shipment labeled as simple home décor unraveled into one of the most striking antiquities seizures in recent years.

While excavating the tomb of Jifai-Hapi, who governed the Asyut region during Egypt's Middle Kingdom, archaeologists discovered the tomb of the ancient governor's daughter, "Edi." The find was ...

Archaeologists with a joint American and Egyptian expedition near Luxor have uncovered a 4,000-year-old Middle Kingdom (1938 B.C.-1630 B.C.) tomb with several intact burials, Egyptian authorities ...

This statue of an Egyptian pharaoh is said to have inspired the English poet Shelley to write his famous poem "Ozymandias." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new secrets from the Old Kingdom. This facial reconstruction of an ancient ...

Art and wine surely share the same DNA. From the frescoes of ­Pompeii to the glass of free plonk at the ­gallery opening, ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human genome sequence from ancient Egypt. The remains are 4,800 to 4,500 years old ...