About 300 ships offer Nile River cruises in Egypt, but Viking Amun stands out for two reasons. (A) In true Viking Cruises' ...

In a breakthrough that could reset theorigin story of Ancient Egypt’s most sacred religious site, a team of geoarchaeologists ...

From Sigiriya in Sri Lanka to the astonishing Pompeii in Italy, we take a look at some of the most fabulous cities lost and ...

Excerpted from Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean. Copyright ...

Sobia, a creamy drink made from rice, milk, coconut, and sugar, originated in medieval Egypt as a fermented beverage and evolved into a nonalcoholic Ramadan staple. Egyptian sobia is sweet, cooling, ...

Egypt has held the official inauguration of the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum near the pyramids in a lavish ceremony with dancers and stars wearing colourful and golden pharaonic costumes.

Ra, often depicted as a falcon-headed deity crowned with a solar disk, stands as the central figure in ancient Egyptian religion. His origins trace back to the Old Kingdom (c. 2686–2181 BCE), where he ...

After a near-death fall, 3-year-old Dorothy Eady woke up claiming she lived in ancient Egypt—and decades later, her memories led her to real places and names no one had told her. This is the story ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza—the largest of Egypt’s pyramids—consists of about 2.3 million limestone blocks. The smallest of these weigh two tons, while the largest weigh over 60. History says laborers ...