Chemical traces of opium found in an ancient Egyptian alabaster vase shows it had a widespread use. An ancient alabaster vase ...

Underwater archaeologists have stumbled across the remains of a pleasure barge dating from the first half of the 1st century ...

A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh was put on display Tuesday in the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall while being ...

Sahura sits amongst the Abusir complex, a popular burial site near the Nile River for pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty of ...

A fossil discovered 13 years ago in Egypt's Western Desert has been identified as a prehistoric whale believed to have roamed 43 million years ago that had four legs and could live both on land and ...

The name of this place means “the town or city of Judah,” and it belonged to the Babylonian Empire. Its existence is known ...

There were many similarities between ancient Greece and Egypt. The two civilizations were in close contact during the ...

The idea of ancient civilisations pioneering orthodontics is irresistible, but archaeology shows their gold dental work ...

Just when you may have thought that archaeologists have discovered all there is to find in Egypt, they uncover something new.

Queen Tiye of Egypt is regarded as the figure who paved the way for the world's major religions and was venerated as a ...

CAIRO (AP) — A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh is being assembled in full view at the Grand Egyptian Museum’s ...