During an excavation at a site believed to date back to the Greek-era near Alexandria, archaeologists uncovered a stunning ...

They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

Discovered in the ruins of Tikal, the altar sheds light on strained relations between the Maya city and Teotihuacán—which was located more than 600 miles away ...

Archaeologists have discovered ancient tombs and Egypt’s first known temple school, the "House of Life," at Luxor’s Ramseum ...

They were masters of ancient Rome – powerful ... emerged onto the political scene as co-regent of Egypt with her younger brother and (in true Egyptian royal tradition) husband, ten-year-old Ptolemy ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history ... that ruled Abydos. A royal necropolis—from the ...

It comes just weeks after another major Egyptian discovery, which marked only the second royal tomb found since King Tutankhamun's over 100 years ago. In February, archaeologists uncovered King ...

Now, a farmer is reviving this ancient "superfood". It's a hot and muggy summer day in Sicily's Madonie mountains, a rugged range of ridges about 65km east of Palermo. In a field of ash trees ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near ... later Second Intermediate Period royal tombs, Wegner said.