To boost our understanding of a little-known civilization that thrived more than 3,000 years ago, scientists have built an ...

Were forms of computers and sophisticated machining processes used in deep antiquity? Startling new evidence is leading us to ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking study reveals a hidden system beneath Egypt’s oldest pyramid—suggesting ancient engineers used a forgotten ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

The Amarna Letters contain records of ancient lords and rulers seeking to establish diplomatic ties with Egyptian pharaohs.

I just visited the stunning new Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt. As a writer I am not supposed to be at a loss for ...

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

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

A new ancient DNA study argues that the familiar house cat is a relative latecomer, carried from North Africa into Europe ...

Whether home to Egypt’s first pharaohs or not, Thinis became an influential political center of the 8th nome, or province, in Upper Egypt. “From the Old Kingdom (ca. 2649–2150 B.C.) on, Thinis was a ...