A 22-centimeter alabaster vase, inscribed to the Persian king Xerxes I, has revealed that narcotics were part of everyday ...

Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...

For generations, the ancient Egyptian city of Akhetaten—built by the controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten—was shrouded in the ...

Archaeologists working at Tuna el-Gebel in Minya, Egypt, uncovered an extensive catacomb containing millions of mummified ...

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A 4,200-year-old silver cup reveals the earliest known cosmological map, predating Babylonian creation texts by more than ...

Treasures from Egyptian Museums in a major exhibition organised in collaboration with the Supreme Council of Antiquities ...

Residue from an ancient Egyptian vessel contains opium biomarkers. The finding suggests widespread usage across society.

A mysterious stone wall buried deep in a Greek cave is shaking up everything we thought we knew about human history. Built ...

Renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass stated in a live conversation with Emirati media personality Anas Bukhash on the sidelines of the 44th edition of the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) that ...

Revolutionary scanning technology has identified two concealed air-filled anomalies behind the eastern facade of Egypt's Menkaure Pyramid, providing the first scientific evidence to support a ...

CAIRO (AP) — In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on Saturday inaugurated its long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, a ...