Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) is home to one of the world’s most spectacular collections of art, sculpture, ...

Egypt's prehistory Inside the Cave of the Swimmers in Egypt, archaeologists have found prehistoric cave art that some ...

New Greek and Roman archaeological discoveries including a funerary building, portraits, mummies, and statues were made in Fayoum, Egypt.

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of ... chamber's entrance alongside painted scenes showing the sister ...

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

Before archaeologists confirmed the discovery of the tomb of Thutmose II last month, more than a century had passed since Howard Carter and a team of Egyptian ... the goddesses Isis and Nephthys ...

The goddess Isis, often depicted nursing her son Horus ... temporary setback when Amin was arrested in 1965 on charges of espionage. During this time, the Egyptian government attempted to rename the ...

Ma’at was a fundamental concept in ancient Egyptian society. It can be understood as “the rightness of things” and was a mixture of order, harmony, and justice. As with many important concepts in the ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of an Egyptian army where an Israelite king was killed. The discoveries at Megiddo, which inspired "Armageddon," reinforce biblical stories about King ...

Scientists have discovered intriguing skeletons hidden in an Egyptian pyramid. Being laid to rest in an Egyptian pyramid is traditionally assumed to have been an honour reserved for the wealthy ...