Archaeologists have uncovered rock-cut tombs dating back to the Old Kingdom in Aswan, Egypt, revealing pottery vessels and jewelry.

A small metal object discovered more than a century ago is changing what scientists know about ancient Egyptian technology. Researchers from Newcastle University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna ...

Ancient Greek geographer Strabo is one of the greatest writers in the ancient world, devoting his life to studying, writing, ...

Egyptian craftspeople mastered reliable rotary drilling more than two millennia before some of the best-preserved drill sets.” ...

Researchers have identified what may be the earliest known metal drill from ancient Egypt—and it was hidden in plain sight.

A long-lost 5,300-year-old artifact from ancient Egypt has just been rediscovered, and it’s far more advanced than anything historians expected.

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri. THE PROTECTIVE ...

Designers are giving museum worthy pieces a new life. By Jill Newman Rebecca Rau was skimming an auction house’s catalog last year when a bronze amulet from the ancient Central Asian region of Bactria ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte embarked upon a military expedition to Egypt in 1798, he took with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental Description de ...

Today we're counting down 25 Historic Facts From B.C.E. that prove the ancient world was a lot more unhinged than anyone warned us about. Grab your copy of What The Facts now, available on Amazon!

Whatever you’re tucking into this festive season, chances are you didn’t have to kill it yourself or forage it from the wild. For that, you can thank your ancestors who, starting around 10,000 years ...