Yi Wong re-examines the destruction of Hatshepsut's statues, suggesting ritualistic deactivation rather than revenge by ...

DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

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A new study sequencing the first complete ancient Egyptian genome reveals the 4,500-year-old man had significant ancestry ...

Archaeologists uncovered Old Kingdom tombs in Aswan’s Qubbat al-Hawa, Egypt, shedding light on a key transitional period in ...

StepPyramid #PyramidOfDjoser #OldestPyramid The Step Pyramid of King Djoser at Saqqara is the oldest large-scale monumental ...

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

The long-lost Wonder of the World was rediscovered underwater in 1968. Finally, some of its blocks have been raised to the ...