Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of a group of rock-cut tombs dating back to the Old Kingdom, containing burial shafts and chambers, during the current excavation ...

Ancient Egypt is known for recycling stone in later dynasties, but this episode argues the shock is that recycling was already happening in the Old Kingdom itself. That implies some precision stone ...

Archaeologists in Saqqara are amazed today by the discovery of a 4,300-year-old mummy covered in gold that has been found intact in Egypt.

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A granite drill core from ancient Egypt shows a continuous spiral groove that implies cutting speeds far beyond modern ...

How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book of the Dead? He found out at the Brooklyn Museum.

An international team of researchers has established that a small and long-forgotten copper alloy tool, excavated a century ago in a necropolis of Upper Egypt, is the oldest identified metal rotary ...

The blocks weighed dozens of tons each and consisted of upright pillars and crossbeams that once formed the entrance to the ...

The engravings and drawings are divided into several groups, researchers learned in their initial study of the space, the oldest of which are done in red and dated to between 10,000 and 5,500 BCE.

An ancient skyscraper considered the seventh wonder of the world crumbled to ruin centuries ago. Now an ambitious archaeological project aims to reassemble it in 3-D.

The decision of Britain’s premier cultural institution to cave into Zionist browbeating has prompted a furious backlash from ...

Remains of the legendary Lighthouse of Alexandria resurface from the Mediterranean after 1,600 years, revealing clues to the ...