The recent discovery of dozens of 2,000 year old burials near Saqqara's necropolis has shed light on the more ordinary ...

When people think about Egyptian discoveries, they often conjure images of pharaohs and high-ranking officials, their tombs ...

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

The tomb of an unknown pharaoh has been discovered by archaeologists in Egypt - but the king's name has been lost to the ages ...

The ancient tomb, found in Abydos, Egypt, is thought to belong to a pharaoh who ruled 3,600 years ago, during a time of ...

Then Hussein’s donkey tripped on something – upon further examination it was an ancient step. The workers soon uncovered 14 ancient steps on that hot day in August 1922 that led to the tomb of the ...

A discovery in the sands of Egypt has offered a different perspective for scientists as they examine the lives of ancient ...

Ancient Egypt had many impressive pharaohs, but which of them were especially fearsome warriors? Here are just some who ...

Elephantine, a town at Egypt's southern frontier near modern-day Aswan, provides a unique window into the urban life of some ...

The burials were found within a cemetery now known as Dra Abu el-Naga, which is near modern-day Luxor (ancient Thebes ... a lecturer in Egyptian archaeology at the University of Manchester ...

For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor ...