This likeness of a Greek woman, once affixed to her wrapped corpse, is a startlingly lifelike work of art and a testament to the cross-cultural currents of the ancient world.

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

An Egyptian papyrus from the 13th century BC describes giant warriors and reopens a global historical and biblical debate.

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.

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 ...

Ahead of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Horse, two Egyptian students in Tianjin stepped into Yangliuqing Ancient Town to experience how locals welcome the Chinese New Year in a traditional way ...

Alchemy in Byzantine times was a long intellectual tradition blending Ancient Greek science, Egyptian symbolism, and ...

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 discovery of ancient Egyptian technology suggested that the civilization was mechanically sophisticated thousands of ...

The city of Naucratis was the earliest ancient Greek colony in Egypt that served as the connecting and trading post between ...

A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out ...