Black market smugglers vanished with a priceless piece of history—completely unaware of the promise left behind to punish ...

Tiberius may have been a Roman emperor, but the sandstone block showed him dressed as a pharaoh and carrying out a ritual ...

Researchers believe the hidden object may be a papyrus scroll or an amulet.

Archaeologists in Poland have made a remarkable discovery while examining a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy. During the first-ever comprehensive scientific investigation of the ancient remains, ...

The texts span a vast expanse of time. The oldest shards date back to the third century B.C.E., featuring tax receipts penned ...

Analysis of the site also shows that the structure had been continuously used from the 2nd century BCE to the 6th century CE, ...

A remarkable 2,000-year-old sandstone stele depicting the Roman emperor Tiberius as an Egyptian pharaoh has been unearthed at the Karnak temple complex in Luxor, Egypt. Discovered during the ...

Talk about buried tea. Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a stash of 3,000-year-old papyrus scrolls — and whatever’s ...

Built during the 2nd century, the circular building found in northern Sinai may have been dedicated to the god Pelusius ...

The story begins over nine thousand years ago, in the vast expanses of the Sahara. In Egypt then, instead of today's landscape of arid desert, the Sahara was a lush, open savannah with gazelles, ...

Treasure trove of broken pottery reveals remarkable details of everyday life in ancient Egypt - Inscriptions found include ...

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