Although its great boom occurred in the 16th century, the drive to travel the known world and discover new lands was ...

The Lighthouse of Alexandria, also known as the Lighthouse of Pharos, is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ...

Sealed inside a rocky tomb for over four millennia, an Egyptian skeleton has just revealed a hidden chapter of ancient ...

Centuries after Europe’s colonial scramble, the fight to reclaim looted masterpieces, from West African “talking drums” to ...

The "intriguing new" rock engraving was found on the west bank of the Nile River near Aswan in November 2022, during a survey ...

Researchers in the UK have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived more than ...

Amnesty International says executions in Saudi Arabia hit a record high last year, with 345 people put to death. The group ...

WASHINGTON — Ancient DNA has revealed a genetic link between the cultures of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

For the first time, scientists decoded a complete genome from a 4,800-year-old Egyptian, revealing surprising Middle Eastern ancestry and fresh evidence of ancient migration between Egypt and ...

Ancient Inscriptions Shed New Light on Who Built Egypt’s Great Pyramid A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Egypt has revealed fresh evidence about the workforce behind the construction of the ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...