Ancient Egyptian stonework is often at the center of debates about archaeology, engineering, and the origins of monumental ...

Ancient Greece and Egypt shaped each other through trade, religion, mythology, art, and politics long before Alexander and ...

From blush and perfume to hair removal and curls, many modern beauty habits have roots in rituals women practiced centuries ...

All the artifacts for the world's largest-ever exhibition of ancient American civilizations have safely arrived in Shanghai, ...

Zep Tepi, often translated as The First Time, was a fundamental concept in ancient Egyptian religion. It referred to the mythical age of creation, when the gods established order from chaos and laid ...

An international group of archaeologists utilizing satellite technology has uncovered 260 massive, 6,000 year old communal burial sites concealed throughout the scorching Atbai Desert of Eastern Sudan ...

For over four and a half millennia, the Great Pyramid of Khufu has loomed over the Giza Plateau, a megalith rising from ...

When people ask why someone like me, an Egyptian, has spent so many years translating Chinese books, I could offer a tidy answer: I studied the language, lived in China, worked in publishing, and ...

Several important and beautiful discoveries of Mycenaean gold objects have been made by archaeologists, particularly in royal ...

The Euphrates River is the longest river in Western Asia and runs through the eastern side of the Fertile Crescent. Flowing ...

The Euphrates River fueled the "cradle of civilization," and a new study reveals the waterway was born of two other ancient ...