The altar is a three-tiered square platform built of white marble, its shape symbolizing the ancient notion that the earth is square. There are four stone staircases, one on each side, leading up ...

At a temple site, the remains of an ancient Egyptian astronomical observatory ... remnants of carved stone plates, altar tables, covers of tiling stamps, and ceramic objects used in daily life ...

A royal tomb belonging to an ancient Egyptian King has been unearthed, in what has been called a "remarkable" discovery by officials. A joint Egyptian-British archaeological mission identified the ...

Archaeologists have made an incredible discovery in the ancient Egyptian city of Taposiris Magna, including a tunnel beneath a temple, which could be a key lead to the lost tomb of Cleopatra VII.

Archaeologists found a small statuette of the Egyptian goddess Isis during excavations at Pagus Belsinonensis, an ancient Roman settlement ... as a shrine or sacred altar where offerings were ...