From her ninth-floor balcony over Alexandria's seafront, Eman Mabrouk looked down at the strip of sand that used to be the ...

An engraved panel from Aswan may show one of Egypt's earliest political elites. It reveals how rulers used art to claim space ...

Containing vast collections of treasures from the ancient world, the British Museum in London is a prodigious source of ...

From "Star Wars" film sets to baboons in Saudi Arabia, here's how to experience the "eclipse of the century" in style on Aug.

The tunnel beneath the temple of Taposiris Magna is 2m high and was cut through 1,305 metres of sandstone - it is hoped it could lead to Cleopatra's lost tomb ...

In this installment of our Battle of the Ancients, Geert and I battle it out playing Senet! There are various rules on how to play Senet, so we chose the simplest, easy to follow ones. Even then, we ...

Constructed pyramids have long been thought of as one of the peaks of human engineering. Despite the structures standing for thousands of years, archaeologists are still working to learn how the ...

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

Sam Kean has gone back in time, at least in practice, for his new book "Dinner with King Tut." He talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about "experimental archeology" and learning about ancient cultures.

Examine how access to Egyptian innovations, produce and skills shaped the course of Greek history.

For decades it was thought that the family system of the ancient Egyptians was very similar to our own. However, Ph.D. candidate Steffie van Gompel explains that the reality is somewhat different ...

A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago.