Scans reveal a huge shaft, which is surrounded by a spiral-like staircase that descends from the centre of the Sphinx's base and down into two square structures, one at 2,000 feet and another 4,000 ...

A groundbreaking discovery has revealed the complete genome of a man who lived in Ancient Egypt over 4,500 years ago, during ...

Near Aswan, the Nile winds through millennia-old rock formations where a team of researchers has discovered an exceptional ...

Nine steps down a stone staircase in Egypt’s Aga Khan Mausoleum, archaeologists discovered a host of hieroglyphic ...

Archaeologists have discovered multiple artifacts depicting ancient Greek deities in the ancient city of Finziade in Sicily.

Yi Wong re-examines the destruction of Hatshepsut's statues, suggesting ritualistic deactivation rather than revenge by ...

Greek and Roman rock-cut tombs discovered near Aswan’s Aga Khan Mausoleum offer new insights into burial customs in ancient Egypt.

For the first time, scientists decoded a complete genome from a 4,800-year-old Egyptian, revealing surprising Middle Eastern ...

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

An Egyptian-Italian archaeological team has announced the discovery of several rock-cut tombs dating to the Greek and Roman ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a lost city in Peru that thrived 3,500 years ago, likely as a potential contemporary of early ...