Ziv Nitzan, a 3½-year-old girl, found a 3,800-year-old scarab amulet during a trip to Tel Azeka, near Beit Shemesh, in Israel ...

For thousands of years, Abydos has been the city of the dead. It’s one of Egypt’s most sacred and ancient burial sites, ...

At the edge of Egypt’s vast Eastern Desert, archaeologists have unearthed haunting evidence of an ancient dark history — ...

Rachelle Hampton is a Chicago-based journalist finishing up her senior year at Northwestern University. Her work has appeared in In These Times and Northwestern magazine. A special edition of Ask ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the tomb of a yet unknown Egyptian pharaoh who ruled 3,600 years ... depth of around 7m below ground level at the ancient Mount Anubis necropolis in Abydos, the ...

Archaeologists in Egypt discovered the tomb of an unidentified pharaoh who ruled approximately 3,600 years ago during a period of political instability. The tomb, located at the ancient Mount Anubis ...

"The shackles complement an ancient text that describes the living conditions of miners in Egypt and mentions the presence of prisoners of war and common criminals in the mines," study author ...

During Egypt's New Kingdom (1550 to 1070 B.C.), dog collars ... Ancient Egyptians tended to prefer energetic dog breeds, and the ones often represented in their art include the ancestors of the ...

Ancient Egyptians tended to prefer energetic dog breeds, and the ones often represented in their art include the ancestors of the hunting dog basenji, the Ibizan hound and the pharaoh hound.

Of course, it was not only pharaohs who populated ancient Egypt. Though more humble members of the public did not have great monuments built in their name, archaeologists have still found plenty ...

Credit: Ł. Kownacki An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that mimicked these diagnoses, researchers have ...