Newly documented Old Kingdom offering tables reveal they were actually recycled pillar bases from a far earlier time. The precision of the original stonework contradicts the primitive tools attributed ...

The Hong Kong Palace Museum has officially opened its highly anticipated exhibition, "Ancient Egyptian Civilization: Treasures from the Egyptian Museum," on November 20. This grand showcase has ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus ...

Were forms of computers and sophisticated machining processes used in deep antiquity? Startling new evidence is leading us to some very interesting conclusions along these lines. This video is further ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

Over a century ago, an ancient Egyptian mummy adorned with a golden mask, having slept for 3,000 years, was unearthed, sparking a global "Egyptomania". This wave of fascination not only swept through ...

Long drought cycles reshaped settlement choices in the Indus region. These climate stresses likely contributed to its slow ...

Step into the world of ancient Egypt, where the quest for immortality shaped a civilization's culture and creativity. The recent exhibition at the Hong Kong Palace Museum, showcasing a set of canopic ...

The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square is hosting a new exhibition that reintroduces papyrus, one of Egypt’s most ancient ...

HONG KONG, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- An opening ceremony for the exhibition "Ancient Egypt Unveiled: Treasures from Egyptian Museums" was held here Tuesday at the Hong Kong Palace Museum. Organized by the ...

DNA extracted from an ancient skeleton in a pot is a genetic mixture of two distinct worlds - ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum is the largest museum in the world for a single civilization, and holds a total of around 100,000 ...