Officials have announced a number of discoveries during excavations around the valley temple of the powerful Egyptian queen, ...

Credit: Paleotechnic of Paris, France. Engineers might have cracked the code for how the ancient Egyptians built their first pyramids. A new study suggests that water power, not just brute force ...

Every year brings new discoveries from ancient Egypt and 2024 was no exception. In this countdown, Live Science takes a look at 10 fascinating discoveries from the past year. When you purchase ...

Samples of the Black Death, which wiped out as many as 50 million people in medieval Europe, have been found in an ancient Egyptian mummy. The pandemic, also known as bubonic plague, spread ...

You'd probably not think I'd then tell you about Ancient Egypt, right? Well, it turns out the two are linked, with an ancient mummy having traces of the pandemic that once wiped out 50 million people.

100 CE). These facts point to an interesting conclusion, although it is one which the ancient Greeks do not seem to have ever specifically mentioned themselves. If the Greek alphabet came from Cadmus, ...

By Holland Cotter The Metropolitan Museum of Art is, in these darkest days of midwinter, one of the city’s spiritual hot spots, thanks to the harmonic convergence of two outstanding and very ...

Egyptian authorities have arrested two men for attempting to steal hundreds of ancient artifacts from the bottom of the sea, the country’s interior ministry said in a Monday statement.

The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in a variety ... An example, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, was created for a priest named Amenhotep.

Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy. Y. pestis, also known as the ...