In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient ...

The genome of a man buried at Nuwayrat in Middle Egypt about 4,500–4,800 years ago has been sequenced. Compared with published genomes of ancient individuals, most of the man’s ancestry best ...

Gujarat may be Krishna's Dwarka, matching ancient texts. Stone structures, artifacts fuel myth-history debate.

Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 years, from around 3100 B.C to 30 B.C.

In ancient Egyptian funerary rituals, canopic jars were used to hold human organs that were removed during the mummification ...

A rare discovery of a tomb from ancient Egypt's Middle Kingdom near Luxor may hold several generations from a single family. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A team of Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a 3,200-year-old tomb believed to belong to a high-ranking military commander from the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses III, often considered the last ...

Three tombs dating back thousands of years have been unearthed in an ancient Egyptian burial complex.. The tombs of three prominent statesmen from the New Kingdom era (1539 to 1077 BCE) have been ...

Ancient Egypt’s Old Kingdom is best known for the enormous pyramids built by its kings and strung in a line through the low desert west of Memphis from Abu Rawash in the north to Meidum in the ...

At least 2,000 mummified ram heads dating from the Ptolemaic period and a palatial Old Kingdom structure have been uncovered at the temple of Ramses II in the ancient city of Abydos in southern ...

Ancient Egypt breakthrough after 'world's first zoo' with 6000-year-old leopard unearthed The remains of numerous animals were found buried alongside a ruler from prehistoric Egypt.