A significant discovery by Egyptian archaeologists on Luxor's West Bank have provided an insight into elite lives of the past ...

History isn't written in stone—it's buried beneath it. If you thought we already knew everything about ancient India, recent discoveries of 4,000-year-old royal tombs and chariots are challenging it ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy ...

Researchers have sequenced the genome of an ancient Egyptian who was buried in a pot nearly 5,000 years ago, about the time ...

A significant discovery by Egyptian archaeologists on Luxor's West Bank have provided an insight into elite lives of the past ...

Egypt is celebrating a new wave of remarkable discoveries that reinforce its status as a global centre of archaeological ...

Some of the female pharaoh's statues were "ritually deactivated," a new study finds. For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and ...

An early mention of a prosthetic comes from Herodotus, who tells the story of Hegesistratus, an ancient Greek diviner who cut off his foot.

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With the world feeling more volatile than ever, especially after the most recent turmoil in the Middle East, itchy-footed ...

From ancient pyramids and bazaars, to museums and river cruises, there are so many wonderful things to do in Cairo at night.

Archaeologists from the University of Houston have discovered the first royal tomb at the sprawling Maya site of Caracol, in ...