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 ...

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.

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.

New research shows Karnak Temple rose from an island created by the Nile, reshaping ideas about its origins. The site’s ...

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.

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German Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt was the first to identify the temple’s likely location, but excavation proved impossible in 1901 due to a high water table. More than a century later, a modern ...

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New research has mapped 16 extensive, interlaced river systems on Mars, dating back approximately 3.7 billion years to the Early Hesperian Period. These large river systems, despite covering only ...

Underwater archaeologists announced Monday they had discovered the 2,000-year-old wreck of an ancient Egyptian pleasure boat off the coast of Alexandria. Divers found the vessel's hull, which was more ...